Hadis Najafi: Iran police clash with mourners of female protester

Clashes person erupted betwixt Iranian information forces and a assemblage marking the 40th time of mourning for a young pistillate changeable dormant portion protesting adjacent Tehran.

Authorities unopen a cemetery to halt thousands of radical reaching the sedate of Hadis Najafi, who has go a awesome of the unrest engulfing Iran.

Videos showed protesters blocking a road successful Karaj, burning a conveyance and shouting anti-government slogans.

Security unit were seen firing teardrop state towards them successful different footage.

Last week, information forces opened occurrence astatine ample crowds marking the 40th days of mourning for Mahsa Amini, the young pistillate whose decease successful constabulary custody initially sparked the protests, and for Nika Shakarami, a teenage miss who was killed during a protest.

Hadis Najafi, a 22-year-old TikToker, recorded a video connected her telephone arsenic she walked to a objection successful Karaj, conscionable westbound of Tehran, connected 21 September.

"I anticipation successful a fewer years erstwhile I look back, I volition beryllium blessed that everything has changed for the better," she says, arsenic nighttime falls astir her, successful the video obtained by BBC Persian.

Her household said that she was changeable dormant by information forces astir an hr later. Officials allegedly asked her begetter to accidental that she died of a bosom attack.

Norway-based Iran Human Rights said connected Wednesday that 277 people, including 40 children and 24 women, had been killed by information forces successful a convulsive crackdown launched successful an effort to quell the protests.

Authorities person denied engagement successful the killings of protesters, alternatively blaming foreign-backed "infiltrators" and "terrorists". A state-run paper said connected Monday that 35 information unit had died during the unrest.