BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 13. As many as 22,000
of the people who were arrested during the protests in Iran started
as of September 16, 2022, have been pardoned, Chief of Judicial
System of Islamic Republic of Iran, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i
said, Trend
reports citing IRNA.
Mohseni-Eje’I said that a group of those detained during the
protests were pardoned before the arrest decision was made and
another group was pardoned after they were sentenced to prison
time.
“In addition to those detained during the protests, 59,000
people were included in the amnesty act, 25,000 of them have been
released, and 34,000 will be released,” the chief added.
According to him, the amnesty act did not apply to those
arrested in connection with serious crimes and theft cases.
The protests in Iranian cities were prompted by death of a
22-year old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, allegedly after being beaten
by Iran’s morality police while in custody for violating the strict
hijab-wearing rules. Amini’s death on September 16 triggered mass
protests in Iran several days later.
Hijab was made mandatory for women in Iran shortly after the
country’s 1979 revolution. Women who break the strict dress code
risk being arrested by Iran’s morality police. Based on the dress
code, women are required to fully cover their hair in public and
wear long, loose-fitting clothes.
After the mentioned incident, a wave of protests has taken place
in Iran, and the protests now cover various fields, including
economy, social inequality, ethnic inequality, etc.
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