Funerals have been held for protesters in what appear to be flashpoints in the country’s unprecedented unrest since the death of Makhsa Amini
Iran appears to have entered a cycle of bloody protests after three more people were killed by security police overnight at a protest rally held after the funeral of another protester killed last Wednesday.
The funerals have been held for the protesters as they appear to be flashpoints in the unprecedented unrest the country has experienced since the death of Makhsa Amini. Forty days have already passed since her death and the protest demonstrations against the authoritarian regime do not stop.
Hengaw, a Norway-based human rights group, said security forces fired and they killed at least three protesters in the city of Mahabad near Iran’s western border with Iraq on Thursday night.
“Death to the dictator,” protesters continue to chant, referring to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Amnesty International said in a statement late Thursday that “unlawful killings” by Iran’s security forces have claimed the lives of at least eight people in four provinces within 24 hours.
In a highly unusual admission of guilt by Iran’s security apparatus, authorities in Sistan and Baluchistan province said the police chief in the provincial capital of Zahedan had been fired because of “flaws” in his handling of the protests.
An internal investigation found that police fired on protesters and that this contributed to the death toll rising to 35.
With protests ongoing across the country for a second straight night, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday it was concerned that authorities were refusing to hand over the bodies of some of the dead to their families.
“We have seen a lot of ill-treatment … but also harassment of the protestors’ families,” Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a news conference in Geneva. “Of particular concern is the report that the authorities are transferring injured protesters from hospitals to detention facilities and refusing to hand over the bodies to their families,” he said.
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