Female students in Tehran chant ‘get lost’ as Iranian president visits their campus
Rights groups say more than 185 people have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested by security forces confronting protestsTime to go: Protesters against the Iranian regime gather outside that country’s consulate in London, Britain, October 92022.
Amini, an Iranian Kurd, was arrested in Tehran on September 13 for wearing “inappropriate attire” and died three days later. After a call for mass demonstrations on Saturday, security forces shot at protesters and used teargas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.
Videos shared on social media showed protests in several major cities. One video showed a young woman lying unconscious on the ground after she was apparently shot in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iran’s second most populous city. “Currently, the Iranian society needs the unity of all its strata regardless of language, religion and ethnicity to overcome the hostility and division spread by anti-Iranians,” they said in a statement.
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