Hundreds of angry men demonstrated after prayers in the streets of Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan on Friday, six weeks after a protest was fatally cracked down on.
"
Death to Khamenei
", chanted men leaving mosques in Zahedan, the provincial capital, according to a video published by the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Oslo.
Demonstrations also took place in Khash and dozens of riot police were deployed against protesters in Iranshahr, another city in Sistan-Balochistan, according to videos posted online and verified by AFP.
Security forces then fired tear gas at Iranshahr to disperse protesters, according to video posted by online media 1500tasvir.
On September 30, security forces fired on demonstrators gathered in Zahedan to protest against the rape of a 15-year-old girl attributed to a police officer.
At least 92 people were killed, according to IHR, during this day dubbed "
Bloody Friday
" by human rights defenders.
304 people killed in crackdown on protests across Iran
In total, according to this NGO, at least 304 people have been killed in the repression of demonstrations across Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16.
This 22-year-old Iranian Kurd died three days after her arrest in Tehran by the morality police who accused her of having broken the strict dress code requiring women to wear the veil in public.
The movement, sparked in mid-September by women's anger over the requirement to wear the veil, is now directed against the religious regime, which faces a challenge unprecedented since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The violence broke out two weeks later in Sistan-Baluchistan, a deprived region populated by the Baloch minority, mainly adhering to Sunni Islam and not the dominant Shiism in Iran, and victim of discrimination, according to activists and NGOs.
On November 4, 18 people, including two children, were killed in Khash, according to Amnesty International, in the repression of “
large scale peaceful demonstrations
”.
"
On November 4 in Khash, security forces immediately and exclusively used live ammunition to disperse protests
," the NGO said in a statement released Thursday.
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The organization says it has documented the names of at least 100 protesters killed by Sistan-Balochistan security forces since September 30, but believes the actual number is much higher.
It calls on the international community to "
take urgent action to end further killings of protesters in Sistan-Balochistan province and across the rest of Iran
".
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