Iranian authorities they arrested a granddaughter of the supreme leaderAyatollah Ali Khamenei, after he was recorded in a video calling the Iranian government a “murderous, child-exterminating regime,” amid a wave of protests in Iran.
Farideh Moradkhani belongs to a branch of the family historically opposed to Iran’s religious rulers and was previously imprisoned in the country.
Her brother, Mahmud Moradkhani, tweeted that she had been arrested last Wednesday after being summoned by the prosecution.
On Saturday, her brother posted a YouTube video of Farideh condemning the “clear and obvious oppression” faced by Iranians and criticizing the inaction of the international community.
“Free people, stand with us! Tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime,” Khamenei’s granddaughter said, AFP news agency reported.
It is not known when the video was recorded.in which the Iranian complains that the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic for the repression of protests are “laughable” and denounces that her compatriots are “alone” in their fight for freedom.
Iran is the scene of a protest movement triggered on September 16 by the death of the young Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman who died after being stopped by Tehran’s morality police for not wearing the Islamic veil correctly.
The Iranian government responds with particular harshness to the demonstrations and the authorities denounce these protests as “revolts” promoted by the West.
The UN Human Rights Council decided on Thursday to open an investigation into allegations of “disproportionate” use of force by Iranian police.
The UN supports it more than 300 people have died in the crackdown on protests. Several NGOs say that the dead are many more. Iran Human Rights (IHR) rises to 416 dead, 51 of them children.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, around 14,000 protesters, including children, were arrested in the context of the protests, “a huge number”.
Moradkhani is the daughter of Khamenei’s sister named Badri, who burned ties with her family and fled to Iraq in the 1980s, during the war between that country and the Islamic Republic.
He became known as an activist against the death penalty. She was arrested in January this year, after having praised the widow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, overthrown by the Islamic revolution of 1979, during a video conference.
She was released on bail in April, according to the NGO Human Rights Activists News Agency (Hrana).
Source: Clarin
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