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97 Iranians protestation to request justness and item the decease of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality constabulary and subsequently died successful infirmary successful Tehran nether suspicious circumstances.
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The U.S. Treasury Department connected Thursday levied caller sanctions against Iranian leaders implicit the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini and convulsive crackdown connected peaceful protesters.
The sanctions travel aft weeks of protestation pursuing Amini's decease connected Sept. 16. The Kurdish-Iranian pistillate died of an evident encephalon hemorrhage successful the custody of Iran's Morality Police for allegedly wearing her hijab excessively loosely. Police person unopen down net entree to societal media and utilized lethal unit to effort to subdue demonstrations passim the country, according to Treasury.
"The rights to state of look and of peaceful assembly are captious to guaranteeing idiosyncratic liberty and dignity," Treasury Under Secretary Brian Nelson said successful a statement. "The United States condemns the Iranian government's Internet shutdown and continued convulsive suppression of peaceful protestation and volition not hesitate to people those who nonstop and enactment specified actions."
Treasury sanctioned 7 elder leaders successful Iran's authorities and information apparatus for quality rights abuses:
- Ahmad Vahid, Iran's Minister of the Interior who maintains oversight implicit each Law Enforcement Forces deployed to subdue the protests
- Eisa Zarepour, the Minister of Communications
- Hossein Sajedinia, the Deputy Operations Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces
- Yadollah Javani, the Deputy Political Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
- Vahid Mohammad Naser Majid, the caput of the Iranian Cyber Police
- Hossein Nejat, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commandant and adjacent subordinate of Iran's Supreme Leader
- Hossein Rahimi is Iran's Law Enforcement Forces constabulary main successful Tehran, who oversees overmuch of the Morality Police's hijab compliance enforcement successful the capital
Access to immoderate spot belonging to the individuals connected U.S. ungraded volition beryllium blocked arsenic a effect of the sanctions.
The Treasury antecedently sanctioned Iran's Morality Police, its elder leadership, and different elder leaders of Iran's information organizations connected Sept. 22.
