The security forces in Iran are reportedly pressuring a woman to admit that she was part of an alleged bomb plot despite being on the other side of the country at the time.
Dena Shibani has reportedly been accused by the Iranian security forces of having participated in a bomb plot in the city of Shiraz.
Shibani, a graphic designer and a snowboard instructor, was arrested on 10th November, with the allegations that the security forces are pressuring her to admit she was part of the supposed plot surfacing now in independent Iranian media.
Her arrest came after the security forces said on 26th October that they had intercepted “a suspicious package that was seen in one of the main thoroughfares of Shiraz”.
The Iranian regime reportedly said the following day that an improvised explosive device had been found in the package.
The authorities later announced that “the perpetrators of the failed and foiled bombing in Shiraz were identified, pursued and arrested.”
Shibani is reportedly being pressured to admit her supposed role in the alleged bomb plot, according to IranWire, who said that this is despite the fact that she had travelled to the island of Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz to visit her sister since 20th October.
Qeshm is nearly 400 miles (over 600 kilometres) from Shiraz.
IranWire have reported that Shibani was therefore not anywhere near Shiraz when the so-called plot is said to have unfolded and been foiled.
Iranian forces have been cracking down on waves of civil disorder following the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was on a visit to Tehran when she was arrested by morality police, accused of violating hijab rules on 13th September.
She was allegedly beaten while in custody and spent the following days in a coma in the hospital before succumbing in the ICU on 16th September.
The clinic where she was treated said in a now-deleted social media post that she had been admitted brain-dead.
Alleged medical scans of her skull leaked by hackers showed that she had suffered bone fractures, haemorrhages, and brain oedema.
Independent Iranian media have claimed that Mahsa’s medical records showing her history of heart disease were faked by the Iranian government.
Numbers differ regarding how many people have been killed since the protests began.
The ongoing protests in Iran have killed at least 458 people, including 63 children, and injured at least 1,160, according to independent estimates. Eleven people have so far been sentenced to death by Iranian courts, with one execution carried out so far.
It is also understood that more than 18,000 people have been arrested so far.
