An Iranian police officer was killed on Sunday by a relative of a little boy who his family said was killed by security forces during anti-government protests last year, an Iranian news agency reported.

The attacker was also killed after he deliberately ran over the police officer with his car, a police officer said, according to Tasnim. The events unfolded on the sidelines of an event in memory of the child, Kian Pirfalak, in Izech, a city in the southwestern part of the country.

Kian Pirfalak was killed along with six other people in November during mass protests across the country following the September 16 death at the hands of Mahsha Amini’s morality police after she was arrested for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women. in the Islamic Republic.

“A police officer was killed after the opposition called for insecurity on Kian Pirfalak’s birthday,” said a police officer in the area, Hojat Sefidpust, according to Tasnim.

The man who drove his car into the police officer was a cousin of Kian Pirfalak’s mother.

In November, Iranian state media blamed the deaths of the seven protesters on “terrorists,” but the boy’s mother blamed security forces.

Judicial authorities announced on April 7 that a man accused of the seven deaths had been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Hundreds of people were killed, including dozens of police officers, and thousands more were arrested in the crackdown on widespread anti-government protests that erupted after the death of Makhsa Amini.