The Iranian regime has implemented an internet blackout inside Iran to hide the scope of the crack down.
Fragmented reports reaching outside Iran, despite government clampdown on information and the Internet, indicate that security forces had detained wounded Iran protesters and even taken dead bodies out to unknown places.
According to sources inside Iran, security forces stormed a hospital in Shiraz and took away the bodies of slain protesters.
Security forces have also transferred wounded Iran protesters from the hospital to prison and are investigating to find out the identities of protesters who were treated in the Namazi and Faqihi hospitals for future arrests.
The bodies of slain protesters who were shot and killed by security forces in Mollah Sadra Street in Shiraz, have yet to be given to their families. Families have been threatened and told that they were not allowed to talk to the media. They have also been told to pay for damages made to government buildings.
Another source from the city of Shahriar in Tehran said: “In the hospital where I work, they brought 56 dead bodies on Sunday night (November 17) … Please, send this message to the world. The Iranian regime’s thugs poured into the streets with pistols and started shooting at people. They aimed straight for the head and shot the people from behind. The ambulance drivers and medical staff said that none of the bullet wounds were in the torso or legs—only the head.”
Obtained reports from Iran indicate that among the slain protesters were teenagers as young as 13 years old. Most were shot in the head or chest. In many instances, the authorities refuse to hand over the bodies of the slain protesters for independent autopsy or to their families.
Investigative reports by Iran Human Rights Monitor put the number of those arrested since November 15, at over 7,000, adding that at least 300 Iran protesters have been killed by the state security forces during the past days. At least 4,000 have been injured, some with life threatening wounds.
On November 15, on the second day of the protests, the state-run Fars news agency said based on “the initial assessments of a security institution” that “around 1,000 people have been arrested so far during the recent unrest in the entire country.”
This is while most of the arrests were made in subsequent days. The state-run TV and radio reported on November 16 that 300 people were arrested in Tehran and on November 17, Alborz province’s IRGC reported that “150 leaders disrupting security in Alborz were identified and arrested (state-run Vatan-e Emrouz daily).
On the same day, the governor of Khuzestan province said 180 people were arrested (state-run IRNA) and the IRGC-affiliated Javan daily reported 80 arrests in Shahriar.
Since the Iranian regime cut off access to internet, there’s very little access to what is happening inside Iran. But from what little is trickling out of the country, whether through text messages or grainy videos and images, the Iranian regime is in a middle of a brutal suppression campaign.
