Sistan (AFP) November 12, Hundreds of angry men protested after Friday prayers in Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan province, online video shows.
According to the Oslo-based Iranian Human Rights Organization (IHR), security forces shot dead more than 90 people on Sept. 30 during protests in Zahedan, the provincial capital of southeastern Iran bordering Pakistan, following weekly prayers.
Masa, who was arrested on suspicion of ignoring Iran’s strict dress code for women, came two weeks after demonstrations erupted in Iran over the death of her Amini. The protests developed into a widespread anti-theocratic movement led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83.
In a video released by the IHR, men emerged from a mosque in Zahedan after Friday’s prayers, chanting “Death Khamenei.” Rights groups say at least 304 people have died in protests across Iran since Amini’s death on September 16.
a third of them were Sistan He was said to have been killed in Balochistan, including at least 92 of him who died on his September 30th by genocide activists dubbed “Bloody Friday”. There is The latest demonstrations came a week after a raid in Sistan-Balochistan’s region, Khash it has been reported that there had been killed more than a dozen people. Amnesty International said at least 18 protesters, bystanders and worshipers, including two children, had died in a crackdown on “mostly peaceful protests” in Khaşh.
Protests resumed in Hash on Friday, with dozens of riot police deployed in the same province of Iran Shahr, an online video confirmed by AFP showed. Footage released by the surveillance channel 1500tasvir showed security forces firing tear gas to disperse protesters in Iran Shahr.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency said 40 days after the Zahedan incident, a week-long appeal by “counter-revolutionaries” to stir up trouble had failed.Other places, including Khash, Iranshahr and Rask, have seen only “smaller demonstrations” with anti-government chants, the agency said.
Iran Shahr protesters walked from the Sunni mosque to the police station and threw stones at them until security forces intervened, he added. In Rusk, locals burned tires and temporarily blocked the road leading to Chabahar port, Tasnim said.
London-based Amnesty International said it had recorded the names of at least 100 protesters killed by security forces in Sistan-Balochistan since September 30, but the actual number is much higher.
Human rights groups called on the international community to “take urgent action to stop further killings” and called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to “provide an independent investigation and accountability mechanism to investigate the crime”.
Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday accused Western countries of “promoting violence and teaching (protesters) to make weapons and Molotov cocktails via social networks and the media”.
In a phone call with UN chief Antonio Guterres, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also criticised Western nations that have pressed for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council on Iran´s crackdown.
