The Iranian regime is running out of prison space to house protesters after almost six weeks of riots, sources speaking with MailOnline have said.
Iranian police have been forced to release protesters back on to the street after running out of places to house them, with country-wide demonstrations leaving the Islamic republic thin on resources, according to Iranian residents.
Several demonstrators recently detained by Iranian police were immediately released, MailOnline understands.
According to a document prepared for Ali Khamenei, the regime’s supreme leader and seen by Iranian opposition forces, the Iranian regime arrested 20,445 protesters in the first two weeks of protests.
The report said that 42 percent of those arrested are under the age 20, with many of its members making up the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK).
For the first time in recent memory, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, Head of the Judiciary, said the Iranian regime is willing to talk to protestors, but Iranians are skeptical
Multiple prisoners in Tehran also fell under attack, with the regime killing dozens of inmates after a fire broke out a Evin Prison, where political prisoners are held. Pictured: A view of the entrance of Evin prison in Tehran, Iran October 17, 2022
Residents of Iran said the regime is running out of prison space to house protestors. Pictured: An unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini’s home town in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan
For the first time, the head of the judiciary in Iran has said the regime is willing to hold talks with protesters.
‘Many of IR officials are calling for talks, this has never happened before,’ said Moeen, an Iranian resident who recently fled the country for Pakistan, speaking to MailOnline on the condition that his real name would not be used.
At the meeting of the Supreme Council of the Judiciary on the 18th of October, according to Hamshahri Online, the Head of the Judiciary Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i said: ‘I am at their service for anyone who has any doubts, questions, criticisms or objections. It is my authority to talk to them.’
He continued: ‘The protest is not burning the flag and Koran, burning people’s property, killing people and killing people.
‘We accept criticism and protest, and if there is a need to make corrections about the mistake we have made, it will be done and we will fix our weakness.’
But Moeen said the move is a plot to quell protests which started over the killing on Masha Amini, who was killed in custody after being accused of breaching Iran’s strict dress code for women.
Despite heightened security measures, columns of mourners had poured into Saqez in the western Kurdistan province to pay tribute to Amini at her grave at the end of the traditional mourning period
Only days later, Iranian security forces opened fire on protesters who massed in their thousands in Amini’s hometown today to mark 40 days since her death.
Amini sparked the protests after Iran’s morality police, the Basiji, arrested her in mid December, shortly before she died allegedly as a result of a police beating on September 16.
Anger flared at her funeral last month and quickly sparked the biggest wave of protests to rock the Islamic republic in almost three years.
Young women have led the charge in daily protests that have endured for more than a month, burning their hijab headscarves and confronting security forces.
Multiple prisons in Tehran have fallen under attack, with the regime killing at least eight people and injuring dozens after a fire broke out a Evin Prison, where political prisoners are held.
The Washington Post reported that at least one of the fires was started deliberately, at a time when prisoners were locked in their cells.