Iran Human Rights Organization published a list of more than 4,200 deaths from the protests of Dey 1404

🔸In its latest report on the crackdown on the protests of Dey 1404, the Iran Human Rights Organization has published a list of more than 4,200 people killed and says that this list is the result of months of information gathering, cross-referencing sources, verifying the identities of victims, and reviewing an extensive set of documents.

🔸According to this report, which was published on Thursday, 26 Shahrivar, among the identified deceased, at least 420 women and 281 people under 18 are included. Twenty-five of those individuals were also under the age of 14, and the youngest recorded victim was four and a half months old.

🔸The Iran Human Rights Organization emphasized that the figure of more than 4,200 is the minimum number of deaths whose identities it has been able to document and is not the final tally of victims.

🔸The organization said that widespread internet shutdowns and disruptions to communications, pressure on families, and restrictions on access to hospitals and forensic medicine were clear obstacles to revealing the full extent of the crackdown.

🔸Earlier, the Islamic Republic had announced the number of people killed in the protests of Dey as 3,117.

🔸However, in its new report, the Iran Human Rights Organization says that its investigations show that even the government’s official list is not complete; including the names of at least 27 people who appear in the official lists of some governorates, and 20 other people whose names were published in government media are not present in the office of the president’s list.

🔸Islamic Republic officials have repeatedly attributed responsibility for the largest share of the violence and the deaths of protesters to “terrorist agents” and to U.S. and Israeli interference.

🔸Ali Larijani, the then secretary of the Supreme National Security Council who was later killed during the 40-day war, on the evening of 19 Dey and under conditions in which nationwide internet was cut off and reports about the security forces firing shots in different cities were being published, called the protests “urban terrorist tensions” and said armed forces had stepped in to “bring the situation to an end.”

🔸Masoud Pezeshkian and Abbas Araqchi also raised similar accounts in the following days and compared the actions of protesters to the methods of the “Daesh” group.

🔸From that time, this government narrative was contradicted by observations of eyewitnesses and findings by human rights institutions. Amnesty International, citing verified videos and witness testimony, reported that IRGC, Basij, FARAJA, and plainclothes officers fired at protesters from the streets and behind the rooftops of buildings, and in multiple cases targeted the heads and upper bodies of individuals.

🔸Read the full report on RadioFarda’s website.