A reporter for Iran International claims that the names of 140 protesters wounded during the January protests were deleted from the computer systems of the Gharazi Hospital in Isfahan. The deletions reportedly resolved a campaign to uncover the full scale of casualties from the crackdown, according to the single source.
Iran International, a London-based Persian-language news outlet, reported Saturday that the names of 140 protesters injured during the January protests in Iran were removed from the computer systems of Gharazi Hospital in Isfahan. Reporter Farnoush Faraji stated that the deletions came to light as part of a campaign to uncover the truth about casualties from the crackdown on the protests. Faraji said the records "disappeared in one day" from the hospital's databases, in what the outlet suggests was an attempt to conceal the extent of the crackdown.
As The Zioneer has previously reported, Iranian authorities detained some 130 people in connection with the January protests on charges of sabotage and rioting, and faced several detainees with possible death penalty charges. Iran has also been reported to have excluded security and protest detainees from recent mass pardons. The deletion of medical records, if confirmed, would point to a wider effort to suppress information about the crackdown's human toll.
The single-source report has not been independently verified. Iran International's claims rest on its reporter's alleged access to the hospital's internal systems; no other source has corroborated the specific allegation of data deletion.
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