Demonstrators are expected to take to streets across Iran again Saturday over Mahsa Amini despite internet cuts, as the protest movement sparked by outrage over her death in custody enters a fifth week.
Amini's death on September 16, three days after she was arrested by Iran's notorious morality police, has fuelled the biggest wave of street protests and violence seen in the country for years.
They have called on people across Iran to show up at spots where the security forces are not present and to chant"Death to the dictator" -- a reference to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. A demonstrator with a red hand painted on her mouth and "Freedom" written on her forehead attends a rally in support of Iranian protests in Paris"It stunned me what it awakened in Iran. It awakened something that I don't think will be quieted for a long, long time," he said.
The unrest has continued despite what Amnesty International called an"unrelenting brutal crackdown" that included an"all-out attack on child protesters" -- leading to the deaths of at least 23 minors. Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi, who was prevented from travelling to the London Film Festival, has called protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death a "great moment in history""If it is so, what did they do regarding the hundreds of thousands of martyrs and deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon?" he added.
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