Nearly four months after the start of the uprising, caregivers have woven an underground network to help the wounded, who are being hunted down in public hospitals.
By Delphine Minoui (Le Figaro)
Fn November, around midnight, Mehdi, a physiotherapist in Shiraz (southwestern Iran), receives a panicked call from a young man in his neighborhood. “With two friends, we were shot at by bassidjis (militiamen controlled by the Revolutionary Guards). One of them was hit by a bullet! You can help us ? He immediately seized the SOS. Since the beginning of the revolt, triggered on September 16, 2022 by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, Iranian hospitals have been under close surveillance. Impossible, for the injured demonstrators, to go there without risking being filed and arrested by the secret services. “Run! I’ll be waiting for you at my place! exclaims Mehdi (who prefers not to give his real name). Thirty minutes later, in his living room transformed into an operating room, he understands that every minute is counted. “The young man was in a bad state.
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