Iran: Security forces suppress protests by arresting students and detaining them in their schools

Arrests by Iranian security forces targeting schoolchildren in an attempt to quell protests have been ongoing since the murder of Mahsa Amini, 22, at the hands of Iran’s moral police. Iranian forces have surrounded schools with “trucks” without license plates and detained children inside their schools, and authorities have closed down all schools and higher education institutions in Iranian Kurdistan.

Security clearance

Hundreds of high school girls and university students are reported to have been involved in the standoff with tear gas and, in many cases, live ammunition by security forces, according to The Guardian, a UK newspaper, which has emphasized the scale of the ongoing protests to be in dispute. Government officials claim that Western-backed media are misrepresenting the scattered gatherings that quickly disintegrate once security forces arrive, but the Norwegian-based Iranian Human Rights Organization said on Saturday: At least 185 people, including at least 19 children, were killed in demonstrations across the country, where social media showed large, but not large, crowds denouncing the regime in Tehran on Saturday night.

Youth demonstrations

Proponents of the protests, which first erupted after Amini’s death after she was arrested by ethics police in Tehran for not wearing the hijab properly, say that the persistence and often authenticity of spontaneous demonstrations show the depth of the isolation of young people from the elderly, the socially reactionary ruling class that is separate from its values and positions. Despite the pictures of security trucks arriving at schools, Iranian Education Minister Mohammad Mehdi Kazem said: No arrests were made from schools, and he said that the families of the students participating in the protests were contacted. “My family about the fate of my two sisters, Nazine, 16, called us this morning and urged us to escort my father from the school, and my friends in the media, worried about the arrest of my student,” said Mateen, who was terrified by Abbas My sister is from school after my uncle asked them to do it as soon as possible and said that the police might attack schools.