Statement of Polytechnic Students’ Gathering in Protest of Mahsa Amini’s Killing
Statement of Polytechnic Students’ Gathering in Protest of Mahsa Amini’s Killing
When the morality police, as one of the most brutal governmental forces, commits the most heinous inhumane acts, and the most corrupt leaders of the regime endorse it, the result is this black shroud that is once again forcibly draped over the people.
The systematic and brutal killing of Mahsa Amini by the morality police officers symbolizes 44 years of oppression and savagery, which the current regime has tied its existence and survival to, imposing an atmosphere of suffocation on society.
The Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic, which is nominally tasked with ensuring the security of the people, has emerged as one of the most important arms of repression, violating basic rights and infringing on the lives and property of the people, stripping Iranian citizens of security and killing them.
Mahsa Amini is the latest victim of this force and a manifestation of the systematic violence of the patrols of terror in the Islamic Republic. The heartbreaking image of her being hospitalized in Kasra Hospital in Tehran is published while signs of torture and beatings by police forces are evident on her body.
Yet, as usual in the regime, none of the responsible institutions are not only accountable for their crimes but also begin to spread false news and distort the truth about this horrific crime with an empire of lies and their domestic and international media affiliates, who beg for scraps from the people’s table.
The issue of mandatory hijab is now considered a red line for the government, and any resistance by the people against this ideological rigidity is met with the harshest forms of suppression.
Mahsa Amini is not the first victim of these repressions, and she will not be the last. Sepideh Rashno, another victim of this issue, was threatened and then sent to detention by a government affiliate this past summer.
She, who bravely stood up against the threats of an enforcer of morality backed by the support of the nation’s murderers, was arrested by the servants of tyranny and forced to make a coerced confession on the disgraceful Islamic Republic’s state television with a sorrowful and tortured face.
These slaves of darkness intended, in their view, to re-impose an atmosphere of intimidation in society, compelling the nation to obey the orders and commands of the backward and civilization-opposing rulers, unaware that the spirit of freedom-seeking and tyranny-resisting of the Iranian people will never bow before the messengers of fear and savagery.
Polytechnic students have never considered themselves separate from the people, and despite the desperate attempts of the regime’s foot soldiers to silence the university, they echo the voices of the powerless, whether in Saqqez, Zayandeh Rud, Izeh, or Mahshahr, and regard every part of Iran and its people as dear parts of themselves.
We, the Polytechnic students, as a small part of the great Iranian nation, stand with and support our mourning and angry Kurdish brothers and sisters in Kurdistan who have stood against the relentless barrage of bullets, and we know that one day the murderers of Mahsa and all the victims of the past four decades, who have temporarily built the foundations of their palace of oppression on the flood of the people’s blood, will be handed over to the justice of the nation.
