Some family members of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of recent protests, have been released
The mother, sister, and one of the uncles of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the November protests, have been released after at least 14 days of detention.
According to news published on social media, on Tuesday, January 7, Nahid Shirpisheh, the mother of Pouya Bakhtiari, along with the sister and uncle of the deceased in the November protests, who had been arrested by security forces on January 23 along with some other relatives of Pouya Bakhtiari on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the deaths of the November 2019 protests, were released.
This information is being published by human rights media at a time when there is no news of the release of other detained members of Pouya Bakhtiari's family, including her father, Manouchehr Bakhtiari.
Previously, the Voice of America had announced in a report that the Islamic Republic had not allowed the families of the victims of the November protests to hold the 40th commemoration ceremony, and some of them, such as members of the family of Pouya Bakhtiari, who had issued a nationwide call for people to attend her 40th commemoration, were arrested, including an 11-year-old child.
The Islamic Republic arrested the family of the murdered young man a few days before his 40th birthday, and it was after this that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a message, strongly condemned the arrest of Pouya Bakhtiari's parents and called for their immediate release.
The memorial ceremony for those killed in Iran was held at a time when the Islamic Republic is still refusing to release the exact number of those killed and arrested in these protests.
This is while the Reuters news agency reported that the death toll in the Iranian protests was 1,500, and quoted three sources close to the leader of the Islamic Republic as saying that Khamenei had ordered government and security officials to do "whatever is necessary" to stop the protests.
Human rights activists called on the permanent members of the Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the repression of the people in Iran as a "crime against humanity."
