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Iran: protesters take to the streets again in the fourth month of protests

2022-12-16T14:36:32.954Z


Dozens of people took to the streets this morning in southeastern Iran as the wave of protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini entered its fourth month. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - PARIS, DECEMBER 16 - Dozens of people took to the streets this morning in southeastern Iran, as the wave of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini entered the fourth month.


    Protesters in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan province, chanted 'Death to the dictator', targeting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a video shared by Iran Human Rights in Oslo.

Other images from Zahedan show crowds of men, some of whom hold up placards with anti-regime slogans, and a group of black-clad women marching down what appears to be a nearby street, also chanting slogans.


    The Islamic Republic has seen waves of protests after the September 16 death in prison of Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian arrested for allegedly violating the country's strict women's dress code.

The protests have resulted in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests, prompting international condemnation, sanctions and the expulsion from Iran of a UN women's rights commission.


    According to the US-based human rights group Hrana, hundreds of people gathered after Friday prayers in Zahedan.

Protests have been held in the city every week since more than 90 people were killed during demonstrations against the alleged rape of a teenage girl by a police officer on 30 September.



Source: ansa

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