Government forces, together with cops and safety officers, attacked the protest gathering of individuals with disabilities that was held in entrance of the Planning and Budget Organization in Tehran on Sunday.
The “Disabled Campaign” account on the X social community reported on Sunday, December 24, that in the course of the protest gathering of individuals with disabilities in entrance of the Program and Budget Organization in Tehran, “Police officers blocked the way in which for disabled individuals.”
According to this report, the police authorities “introduced the gathering to the sidelines by making a battle” and “harm the worst insults” on the protesters.
The “Disabled Campaign” reported {that a} important variety of “deaf, blind, and bodily disabled” attended the “Ninth National Rally of the Disabled” right this moment.
The protestors chanted: “Neither charity nor menace, we would like the fitting with dignity”, “Shout, disabled particular person, shout in your proper”, and “Stand up, disabled particular person, to remove discrimination.”
According to this report, on this rally, which was held to “protest the non-implementation of Article 27 of the Disabled Persons Law”, “the safety officers of the Program and Budget Organization stole the speaker of the disabled from their palms” and the hand of a deaf particular person was injured.
In the previous weeks, a gaggle assembly of individuals with disabilities on behalf of the gathering protesters was held with the administrators of the Program and Budget Organization, however the standing of great elements of their calls for, equivalent to arrears, stays undecided.
Returning the finances line for the implementation of the “Law for the Protection of the Disabled” to the annual finances, rising the finances of Article 27 of the Law for the Protection of the Rights of the Disabled, and figuring out the arrears of 1402 are among the many calls for of those protesters.
In current months, individuals with disabilities have repeatedly gathered in entrance of the Islamic Council, the Planning and Budget Organization, or the judiciary of the Islamic Republic in Tehran, in addition to in entrance of welfare places of work in different cities.
According to Article 27 of the Law on the Protection of the Disabled, the federal government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is obliged to find out the “dwelling allowance” of individuals with “very extreme disabilities” or “severely with out a job and earnings” on the minimal annual wage and to find out the required credit within the nation’s annual finances legal guidelines. to use
Earlier, sociologist Mehrdad Darvishpour instructed Voice of America that individuals with disabilities in Iran are beneath double strain because of the insurance policies of the Islamic Republic.