Rights groups have claimed that Iranian authorities arrested Mahsa Amini’s father and prevented her family from holding a vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of her death.
The 1500tasvir monitor, the Iran Human Rights group, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network said Amjad Amini had been arrested early on Saturday in Saqez in western Iran and released after being warned not to hold a memorial service at his daughter’s graveside.
The death of Mahsa Amini—a 22-year-old Kurdish woman arrested by Iranian morality police last year for not adhering to mandatory dress codes—led to months of some of the biggest protests against clerical rule ever seen in Iran.
A heavy security presence in Iran’s main cities and in mostly Kurdish areas appeared to have deterred large-scale protest rallies but human rights groups reported sporadic confrontations in several areas of the country.
In a report last month, Amnesty International said Iranian authorities “have been subjecting victims’ families to arbitrary arrest and detention, imposing cruel restrictions on peaceful gatherings at grave sites, and destroying victims’ gravestones.”
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