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'Ethnic minority women majority of victims in Iran'

2022-12-06T15:39:10.535Z


Many of those killed during protests in Iran are women, even in cases where they did not take part directly in the demonstrations and a large number of those killed, including children, are from marginalized ethnic minorities. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 06 - Many of the people killed during the protests in Iran are women, even in cases in which they did not take part directly in the demonstrations and a large number of people killed, including children, are from marginalized ethnic minorities.

The BBC teams, also using scrupulous forensic techniques, verified the identity of more than 75 people killed.


    In the Kurdish areas, as well as in the south-eastern regions where the Baluch (Sunni minority) live, there was the highest percentage of deaths: 32 identified victims came from Kurdish areas, while 20 from the province of Sistan Baluchistan.


   Although the capital Zahedan is in a very conservative province, in recent weeks women have joined the protests: in online videos, women wearing the full veil - the chador - can be seen chanting "with or without hijab, forward to the revolution".

Hasti Narouei, 7, was also from the Baloch community: on September 30 he was in Zahedan with his grandmother for Friday prayers.

According to local activists, Hasti was hit on the head by a tear gas canister and suffocated.

With only a week left until her first day of school, a photo published by the BBC shows her in traditional Baluki dress.


    In Mahabad, in the province of Azerbaijan, Fereshteh Ahmadidi, 32, was killed by shots to the chest fired by government forces while she was on the roof of her house on October 26, the date of protests for the 40th day of mourning for Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in Tehran in September while in the custody of the morality police for not wearing the veil according to the rules.

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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