Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct 12: At least 108 people have died as a result of Iran’s crackdown on more than three weeks of statewide protests brought on by Mahsa Amini’s passing, according to Iran Human Rights, an organisation based in Oslo.
In separate battles in the city of Zahedan, in the southeast province of Sistan-Baluchistan, the Iranian security forces also claimed at least 93 additional lives, according to a statement from IHR.
Iran experienced nationwide unrest on September 16, when Amini, who had been detained by morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the country’s severe dress code for women, passed away three days after going into a coma.
“The international community must prevent further killings in Kurdistan by issuing an immediate response,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said in a statement today.
According to the Olso-based organisation, 28 deaths have been reported in the province of Mazandaran, 14 in Kurdistan, 12 in Gilan and West Azerbaijan, and 11 in the province of Tehran. According to the report, other kids who were demonstrating in the last week on the streets and at schools were also detained by the Iranian security forces.
IHR stated that because it was still looking into the incident, its death toll did not include the six people who reportedly died on Sunday amid protests inside Rasht central prison in northern Iran.
It claimed that workers at the petrochemical plants in Bushehr, Abadan, and the southwest Iranian city of Asalouyeh had also participated in nationwide strikes and demonstrations.
