Female students in Tehran chanted 'get lost,' according to activists, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody.
Female students in Tehran chanted "get lost," according to activists, as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody.
A video posted on Twitter by the activist 1500tasvir website showed what it said were women students chanting "Raisi get lost" and "Mullahs get lost" as the president visited their campus. Her death has ignited nationwide demonstrations, marking the biggest challenge to Iran's clerical leaders in years.
Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested by security forces confronting protests. But a senior police official repeated the claim by security forces that they did not use live bullets and that the man had been killed by "counter-revolutionaries" , the state news agency IRNA reported.Hengaw also carried a video of emergency personnel trying to resuscitate a person and said one protester had died after being shot in the abdomen by security forces in Sanandaj. Reuters could not verify the video.
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