In Sistan and Baluchestan, the last glowing embers of Iran's protest movement .
Cities in western Iran went on strike Wednesday in solidarity with mourners marking 40 days since security forces killed dozens in a crackdown on protests in the country’s strife-torn southeast, rights groups said.
Security forces opened fire on protests that erupted on September 30 after weekly prayers in Zahedan, the capital of the restive province of Sistan-Baluchistan on Iran’s border with Pakistan.
It came two weeks after demonstrations broke out across Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, following her arrest in Tehran for allegedly flouting the country’s strict hijab dress rules for women.
The crackdown on national protests considering that her dying has killed at least 304 people, along with 41 kids and 24 ladies, says the Oslo-primarily based institution Iran Human Rights (IHR).
Activists were seen distributing fliers calling for protests in all towns Wednesday for the forty-day mourning rite of Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday,” in a video shared through the 1500tasvir social media channel.
one among Iran’s most outstanding actors, Taraneh Alidoosti, additionally posted a photo of herself on Instagram without a headband and holding a slogan that has come to be the rallying cry of the protests: “lady. lifestyles. Freedom.”
On Tuesday, Iran’s water polo group, which turned into competing at an Asian Championship suit in opposition to India in Bangkok, failed to sing the Iranian country wide anthem, in line with video cited in a Reuters record, a pass the anti-authorities protest motion has come to peer as the trendy show of harmony.