Canada will reportedly levy sanctions on “dozens” of Iranian individuals and entities including the country’s “morality police,” announced Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday as security forces in Iran continue to suppress violently on protesters.
Iran has been stupefied by protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, after being detained by Iran’s morality police this month allegedly for not wearing her hijab properly.
The demonstrations have spread to all of Iran’s 31 provinces as people take to the streets to express their anger with Iran’s heavy-handed policing of what women wear.
Iran’s state media reported saying that at least 41 people have been killed during the protests.
Security forces and live ammunition have been deployed by the state against demonstrators in Kurdish areas of western Iran, where the protests have been concentrated.
“To the women in Iran who are protesting and to those who are supporting them: We are with you,” Trudeau was reported saying and added,
“We join our voices — the voices of all Canadians — to the millions of people around the world demanding that the Iranian government listen to its people, end their repression of freedom and rights, and let women and all Iranian people live their lives and express themselves peacefully.”
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