BBC identifies young people killed in Iran’s protests

These are immoderate of the schoolchildren and young radical killed successful protests sweeping crossed Iran - the boldest situation to the Islamic Republic since its establishment, successful 1979.

Iran's Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) estimates 222 radical person been killed successful oregon aft the wide demonstrations sparked by the decease successful custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, detained for allegedly breaking rules connected headscarves.

The authorities' strict power of accusation and autarkic reporting makes the fig and identities of those killed hard to verify.

BBC News has utilized a assortment of investigative techniques to sanction a full of 45 men, women and children who person died - galore shot.

Almost each of the Islamic Republic's erstwhile protests person been astir the authorities of the economy.

Now, successful an unprecedented move, women, peculiarly young women, person taken to the streets - the slogan chanted astatine protests: "Woman. Life. Freedom."

But the information services person cracked down - and immoderate women person been shot.

Nika Shakarmi and Sarina Esmailzadeh, some 16, were killed successful superior Tehran and its surrounding area.

Ms Shakarmi went missing successful Tehran, connected 20 September, aft telling a person constabulary officers were chasing her. A decease certificate obtained by BBC Persia states she died aft "multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object".

Mahsa Mougouyi, 18, died successful Isfahan, cardinal Iran.

Women successful their 20s and 30s person besides been killed, arsenic has Minoo Majidi, 62, successful Kermanshah, occidental Iran.

Information is heavy restricted successful Iran. The net is censored, regularly slowed down and adjacent stopped.

Journalists look prosecution for reporting facts that reason the authorities view.

According to the International Federation of Journalists, 24 reporters person been arrested since the demonstrations began.

There is besides a precise beardown online disinformation run tally by the authorities to discredit organisations trying to find the truth.

Journalists from the BBC Monitoring, Disinformation and Persian teams utilized names from trusted sources, including human-rights groups already verifying identities, and matched them to social-media posts from them oregon their family.

They intimately examined audio-visual material, specified arsenic images and footage of deaths, burials and funerals, and cross-referenced it with decease certificates and authoritative online records.

Some of the families, nether unit not to talk to journalists, person besides been contacted successful confidence.

On the streets and successful schools crossed Iran, young women and schoolgirls person been burning their mandatory headscarf - a nonstop situation to the clerical establishment's ideology.

Girls who recorded and shared videos of themselves removing their headscarf successful people person taken to the streets and go a cardinal portion of the movement, which is predominantly led by assemblage students.

Such protests by high-school pupils are unprecedented.

A fig of children were killed connected 30 September successful Sistan Baluchistan state successful the south-east, location to galore radical from the Baluch taste group.

Amnesty International has accused Iranian authorities of killing dozens of radical that day, firing unrecorded ammunition successful a determination that shocked the country.

Schoolboy Mohammad Rakhshani, 12, the youngest pupil verified by BBC News, was killed that day. Omid Sarani, 13, Sodeys Keshani and Ali Barahooei, some 14, and Samer Hashemzehi, 16, besides died.

Elsewhere, schoolboy Amirhossein Basati, 15, was killed successful Kermanshah province, north-west Iran, and Zakaria Khial and Amin Marefat, some 16, died successful West Azerbaijan, north-west Iran.

BBC News has confirmed deaths crossed the state but radical belonging to taste minorities, who person agelong faced repression and governmental violence, person been targeted.

As good arsenic groups killed successful Sistan Baluchistan province, BBC News has identified radical killed successful areas with precocious numbers of Kurdish people, wherever tensions person been peculiarly high. They include:

When mapped, each the deaths verified by the BBC span the country, but with clusters successful the northbound west, astir the superior Tehran and successful south-eastern Sistan Baluchistan.

The authorities has denied sidesplitting "peaceful" protesters and said much than 20 information unit person died.

Reporting by Kayvan Hosseini, Shayan Sardarizadeh and Nooshin Khavarzamin; accumulation and ocular journalism by Lucy Rodgers, Dominic Bailey and Rafael Chacon; graphics by Mark Bryson and Matt Thomas.

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