Activists: Iranian forces unleash heavy fire on protesters
Also: Iran protests: Security forces intensify deadly crackdown in Kurdish areas (BBC)
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Source: Associated Press
Activists: Iranian forces unleash heavy fire on protesters
By The Associated Press
November 21, 2022
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian security forces used heavy gunfire against protesters in a Kurdish town in the country’s west on Monday, killing at least five during an anti-government protest that erupted at the funeral of two people killed the day before, activists said.
Videos circulating online show dozens of protesters taking shelter in alleyways as heavy gunfire echoes through the streets. Some show individuals lying motionless and bloodied in the streets, while others show residents gathering at a local hospital to donate blood.
Iran has been convulsed by anti-government protests since the Sept. 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the country’s morality police in the capital, Tehran. The protests, which were initially concentrated in the western, Kurdish region of Iran where Amini was from, have spread across the country and escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling clerics.
Hengaw, a Kurdish human rights group, said Iranian security forces unleashed heavy gunfire on protesters in the town of Javanrud, where a funeral was held for two protesters killed the day before. It cited witnesses as saying that Iranian forces used heavy machine guns.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iran-middle-east-iraq-tehran-22db6336390c081f732512c097e90d6a
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Source: BBC
Iran protests: Security forces intensify deadly crackdown in Kurdish areas
21 November 2022
By Jiyar Gol
BBC Persian
At least 30 anti-government protesters have been killed by security forces in Kurdish-populated cities in west Iran in the past week, a rights group says.
Hengaw reported that seven had died since Sunday in Javanroud alone, amid an intense crackdown by Revolutionary Guards armed with heavy weapons.
On Monday, the funerals of two protesters turned into a mass rally.
In one video, a protester can be heard saying the Revolutionary Guards are firing machine guns at people's heads.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63703239