Three people have been killed during protests in Iran's Kurdistan province over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by 'morality police,' the region's governor said.
after she was arrested by"morality police," the region's governor said Tuesday.
Exiled Iranians of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gather in front of the embassy of Iran in Berlin, Germany, September 20, 2022 after the death of an Iranian woman held by the country's"morality police." The opposition group is also known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and widely referred to in the West as the MEK.
"The view of this issue should be changed," the influential organization said in a statement, stressing that it opposed"the arrest and trial of ordinary people" for clothing infringements. Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday rejected the criticism and said a probe had been ordered into the"tragic death" of Amini, who he said, quoting President Ebrahim Raisi,"was just like our own daughters."
Ayatollah Asadollah Bayat Zanjani, a senior religious figure whose guidance many follow, on Saturday criticized the events leading up to Amini's death.
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