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Iran security forces kill boy, 13, as anti-government protest sweeps two cities |
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Saturday, 09 April 2005 |
 The city of Mahabad in western Iran has been placed under de facto
martial law after three days of unrest and extensive clashes between
residents and security forces. Anti-government protests were also
reported in the nearby city of Marivan, on the Iran-Iraq border.
Clashes in Marivan occurred on Friday, as young people in the city's
Edareh Bargh Street challenged a security forces officer for accosting
a girl. In the ensuing fighting that erupted between local residents
and agents of the Special Anti-riot Guard, who came to the officer's
rescue, several security agents were injured and an unknown number of
protesters arrested. Angry demonstrators chanted anti-regime slogans
and smashed the windscreens of several patrol cars.
Clashes between anti-government protesters and paramilitary forces in
Mahabad began on Wednesday evening, but reached its peak on Thursday
night. Thousands of residents took to the streets to chant slogans
against the mullahs' regime. Agents of the Special Anti-riot Guard and
Revolutionary Guards attacked the crowd, but young protesters fought
back and hit-and-run clashes spread to several districts of the city. A
thirteen-year-old boy was killed when a security agent hit him on the
head with a truncheon, eye-witnesses said.
Throngs of protesters, angered by the boy's cold-blooded murder,
attacked government buildings and patrol cars. Local officials called
for reinforcements from nearby cities to quell the protest. Clashes
continued after midnight and dozens of protesters were wounded. Some
members of the security forces were beaten up by demonstrators.
Dozens of protesters were arrested during the unrest or in the
house-to-house searches that security forces undertook in several
neighborhoods after midnight. No information is available on their fate.
Protests erupted again in some districts of Mahabad for the third
consecutive night on Friday. Young people chanting anti-government
slogans sealed off several streets with burning car tires.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the UN Secretary General
and other international authorities to the clerical regime's brutal and
violent suppression of public dissent and protests. It calls for the
immediate intervention of these international authorities to save the
detainees from torture and execution.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
April 9, 2005 |
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