More protests, more clashes, more blood. Amnesty International fears at least 10 people, including children, were killed in Iran today after security forces opened fire on protesters in the troubled southeastern province of Sistan-Balochistan.
The protests for Mahsa Amini never let up, the 22-year-old, who died on September 16 after being arrested for leaving a strand of hair unattended, burst out after Friday prayers in the provincial capital Zahedan and other areas of the province including Khash. According to Amnesty, the security service fired “live bullets” from the roofs of the buildings.
A bloody Friday that didn’t go unnoticed even by the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights (Your), which released a video showing some bloodied people being taken away by the authorities. According to her, “many were killed and wounded in Khash”. The London-based NGO Baloch Activists Campaign (Bac), which believes Iranian security forces fired “with intent to kill,” is even tougher. The version circulated by the theocratic regime is of a different style. The official Irna news agency spoke of several police officers injured by protesters who threw stones after setting a police patrol on fire. The G7 meeting in Munster condemned the repression and “expressed support for the fundamental aspirations of the Iranian people for a future in which human security and their universal human rights are respected and protected.” Harsh words also about the “violent death of the young Iranian” Jina “Mahsa Amini” and about “the brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful demonstrators and children”.
Sistan-Balochistan is populated by the Baloch ethnic minority, which follows Sunni Islam rather than the prevailing Shia faith in Iran. Activists have long complained of severe discrimination by Iran’s Shiite clergy. It’s a province that has not remained isolated from the protest movement sparked by Mahsa’s death. On the other hand. The unrest was triggered by the alleged rape of a 15-year-old by the chief of police in the port city of Chabahar in the province of the same name. Activists accused security forces of massacring more than 80 people on September 30 in another “bloody Friday” in Zahedan.
Average: More than 40 students arrested on college campus
Iranian security forces have carried out a series of attacks on college students on campuses across the country and dozens of students have been arrested, according to the Iranian Students’ Union. Guardian reports it. Attacks on universities escalated this week, according to student organizations and human rights groups, as young people gathered to celebrate 40 days in the custody of Iran’s vice squad since Mahsa Amini’s death in September. The Iranian Students’ Union has documented more than 40 arrests of university students and collects reports of arrests and campus raids by security forces across the country on its Telegram channel.
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