Protests in Iran: Amnesty International assures that the government has killed 44 children

International amnesty this Saturday he accused the government of Iran to be responsible for murders of 44 children and teenagers during the protests taking place in the country.

This was reported by the human rights organization in a statement. In it, they also stated that the authorities they sent “threats to relatives of 13 of the victims”.

The data comes from an investigation conducted by AI in which they documented how the Iranian security forces committed unlawful killings of children, specifying the names and causes of their deaths.

According to the report, 34 minors died from the impact of bullets in the heart, head or other vital organs, while four others died from shots at close range.

The remaining five completing the figure released, died for assaults and one suffocated by tear gas.

In this sense Amnesty International has assured him “relatives were forced to bury them in remote villages and sharing images on social media was forbidden”.

The organization also reported the deaths of a two year old and a six year old in the city of Zahedan, in the southeast of the country, and said the other victims were between 9 and 18 years old.

For the killings, they have targeted the Iranian authorities, claiming that they “they denied responsibility for the deaths of at least 19 children and attributed the deaths of 12 of them to opposition groups and six others to accidents”.

“The authorities have not only condemned the families of slain children to a life of inconsolable sadness, they have also inflicted extreme mental anguish through cruel burial restrictions, memorials and relentless intimidation to enforce silence. These practices violate the absolute prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” said Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

He added: “The recent establishment of a United Nations fact-finding mission to collect, consolidate and analyze evidence of such violations sends a clear message to the Iranian authorities that they can no longer commit crimes under international law and other serious violations of human rights”. humans without fear of consequences.

In addition, AI said the Iranian government harassed and intimidated the families of the victims “to force them to remain silent or to force them to accept reports that absolve the authorities of responsibility for the deaths of their loved ones in written statements or video recordings broadcast on television of state”.

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