10/10/2022
Family of Mahsa Amini, who’s death sparked protests across Iran, receiving death threats, cousin says.
Efram Mortezaei, Mahsa’s cousin, confirmed the threats Mahsa’s family has been receiving since her death.
“They told me they will kidnap me as soon as I step outside my camp,” he said, referring to a camp organized by the party. “And I will face the same thing that happened to Ruhollah Zam.”
Iranian intelligence agencies have continued to threaten the family of Masha Amini, three weeks after she lost her life following her arrest and beating by the morality police, IranWire can reveal.
Efram Mortezaei, Mahsa’s cousin and a member of the Kurdistan Communist Party, said he had received telephone calls and messages from unidentified numbers, threatening the mourning family not to join the ongoing protests sparked by Mahsa’s death.
He had also been threatened with the “same circumstances as Ruhollah Zam” faced in 2019. Zam, 47, was executed a little more than a year after Iranian intelligence authorities tricked him into travelling to Iraq, where he was abducted.
Zam was convicted of “corruption on earth,” a charge that does not specify a crime but which is sometimes used by the Iranian judiciary to describe alleged attempts to overthrow the Islamic Republic.
Zam ran the online opposition news site Amad News, which was accused by Tehran of inciting violence during deadly protests in 2017 and 2018.
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