my my name is amjad amini, the father of mossad are many. i am 53. mini during the vacation. honorary back to our home town include a stand we stopped into france. it was her first trip to the capital. —— we stopped in iran. it would be before she started university, we had just enrolled her to begin university —— we stopped in tehran. the last days of her summer holiday she wanted to visit a famous bridge in uptown tehran but she never made it as she was arrested by the morality police. they took her to the police station. she asked in the police station, but why? i asked them to show me the footage from the body cameras. they told me that the cameras were out of charge and i asked why she was not transferred to the hospital earlier when she collapsed at the police station and they said that the ambulance's key was lost by 20 minutes and they couldn't find it. i still do not believe that she is not with us. they didn't show my daughter to me. after a long struggle with the authorities, i saw her dead body. there were bruises on her dead body. there

amjad amini is the father of my son amin. he was briefly detained today when he was leaving his home. he was taken to an intelligence office in the city of sakis in kurdistan province, where he's from. and he was warned against going ahead with plans to hold a memorial service for massoud. he was warned that nobody from his family is allowed to leave their homes. now, we had reports earlier today that the house of the parents of mahsa amini. amini, he was surrounded by security forces and they were held under some sort of house arrest. and they had asked a few days ago from everyone around the country to come to mahsa's grave to remember her on the anniversary of her killing. but all the roads to the city of sakha, where she was from is are closed off and there is heavy security presence inside and outside of the city. we have seen pictures of armoured vehicles and security forces with heavy weapons deployed, especially across cities and across the whole of kurdistan province. now the protests that we saw last year, immediate

security forces surrounded the family's home in the city of saqez ahead of the anniversary and warned amjad amini against commemorating his daughter's death. mahsa amini, a 22-year-old kurdish woman, was killed on -- a year ago after she was arrested for allegedly failing to wear a headscarf properly. her death sparked historic, nationwide protests across iran for months. over 500 protesters, including dozens of children, were killed while thousands of others were arrested as the iranian government cracked down on the mobilizations. at least seven people have been executed for their involvement in the protests. a court in egypt has sentenced one of the nation's best-known journalists and political activists to six months in prison in a case that's drawn condemnation from human rights groups. 64-year-old hisham kassem was convicted on what supporters say are trumped-up charges of slander, defamation, and verbal assault on a police officer. kassem is a co-founder of the free current movement of liberal political parties in egypt and is seen as a possible challenger to president abdel fattah el-sisi