Saturday, December 5, 2009

15 Mourning Mothers arrested today

On Saturday, Dec. 5th, 2009 around 5 p.m. while mothers were attmpting to enter the park and hold their gahtering, they were met with a large contingent of security forces, plain clothes thugs who were riding their motorcycles or walking and the forces had occupied all corners of the park.

According to reports by human rights and democracy activists the plain clothes thugs attacked the mothers and arrrested 4 of the mothers and took them to unknown locations. In other parts of the park they were attacked the mourning mothers and young girls and they arrested 11 and transferred them to their vans that were parked around the water fountains.

The security forces are roaming the park and whenever they see a mother, they insult and mal-treat them and then they arrest them. The arrests are currently continuing and some mothers have even been arrested in the streets in the proximity of the park. It's very possible that the number of the arrested exceeds 15. The number 15 was reported by eyewitnesses. ...

The security forces are estimated at about 200-300 people and are situated in different parts of the park. Some of the plain clothes thugs who were filming the mothers in the past few weeks are now identifying and arresting them. The arrests have extended to streets around the park.

Translation: Tour Irani



Picture from arshive

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