New DelhiAnti-hijab running in some parts of Iran has entered its seventh week. A 19-year-old celebrity, Mehrshad Shahidi, lost his life in police custody on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, with hundreds of lives being lost in demonstrations across the country, allegedly by being thrashed with batons at the IRGC Intelligence’s Detention Center. was killed. According to local media.
Shahidi, a celebrity chef, also known as Jamie Oliver of Iran, had 25,000 followers on Instagram and posted videos of himself cooking. According to reports, he passed away a day before his 20th birthday.
According to his family, Shahidi was killed after he was hit on the skull and told the media, “After our son’s arrest, he lost his life as a result of the stick being hit on the head, but we are ruled by the government.” There has been pressure to say that he died of a heart attack.”
Meanwhile, Iranian officials have dismissed claims of Chef’s murder in custody and said his cause of death would be announced later. On Friday, the province’s Chief Justice Abdolmehdi Mousavi said there were “no signs of fracture in any of the injuries to the arms, legs, skull or brain.”
Meanwhile, the province’s deputy governor Behnam Nazari was quoted as saying that “rumors are being spread by the anti-Iran media, but no shots have been fired at Mehrshad Shahidi.”
Protests have begun for the burial of the martyr, thousands of people rallied on Saturday. Security personnel reportedly used tear gas to disperse the protesters, who chanted, “Everyone who is killed will support thousands more.”
An Iranian political expert, Dr. Reza Tagizadeh, claimed that the killing was “triggering a second and even stronger wave of national protests against the government, similar to the death of Mahsa Amini a month earlier.”
Riots broke out across Iran in response to the heinous death of Mahsa Amini, who was beaten to death by the IRGC for failing to wear the country’s strict hijab requirements. The first photographs of Mahsa Amini were released by Niloufer Hamidi to launch protests in Tehran, which then spread to other countries, with at least 234 protesters, including 29 children, killed in action by security forces.