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A pistillate without a headscarf was photographed defying information forces successful Sanandaj
Human rights activists person expressed alarm astatine a crackdown connected protests successful a Kurdish-populated metropolis successful occidental Iran.
Amnesty International said determination were reports that information forces had utilized firearms indiscriminately successful Sanandaj.
Kurdish radical Hengaw posted a video which it said showed constabulary shooting astatine homes successful the metropolis and different successful which gunfire and cries could beryllium heard.
It reported that astatine slightest 5 civilians had been killed and 400 injured crossed the portion since Sunday.
But it warned that the decease toll mightiness beryllium higher due to the fact that authorities were disrupting section net and mobile networks.
Protests against the clerical constitution person swept crossed Iran since the decease 3 weeks agone of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish pistillate from the occidental metropolis of Saqqez who fell into a coma aft being detained by morality constabulary successful Tehran for allegedly violating the strict hijab law.
The unrest is present considered the astir superior situation to the Islamic Republic since its inception successful 1979.
Iran's leaders person accused overseas enemies and exiled absorption groups of fomenting "riots" that they volition not tolerate.
The Norway-based radical posted videos which it said showed aggravated clashes betwixt protesters and information forces successful the metropolis connected Monday night. Repeated gunfire tin beryllium heard successful the footage, arsenic good arsenic cries and shouts.
Videos of ongoing demonstrations by schoolgirls successful Sanandaj and elsewhere successful the portion were besides posted online.
In one, more than a twelve girls are seen waving their headscarves successful the aerial successful the mediate of a road and shouting "woman, life, freedom", which is the main slogan of protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death.
During a sojourn to the metropolis connected Tuesday, Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi blamed "counter-revolutionary terrorist" groups for the "riots" and vowed that information forces would proceed to respond with an robust hand, authorities media said.
At slightest 185 people, including 19 children, person been killed by information forces since the protests erupted connected 17 September, according to Iran Human Rights, different Norway-based group.
The authorities has denied sidesplitting protesters and said that much than 20 information unit person died.
Watch: The protests presently sweeping the state person their roots successful changes made aft the 1979 revolution
Thousands of radical person besides reportedly been arrested successful the crackdown.
They see the girl of precocious erstwhile president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, who the judiciary said connected Tuesday had been charged with "disruption of nationalist bid and propaganda against the Islamic Republic", according to AFP quality agency.
In different development, protests by workers successful Iran's captious lipid and state manufacture reportedly widened connected Tuesday.
"This is the opening of the roadworthy and we proceed our protests each day, unneurotic with radical each implicit the country," the Wall Street Journal cited a committee representing declaration lipid workers arsenic saying successful a statement.
However, authorities media denied the reports of a strike.
On Monday, dozens of employees blocked roads extracurricular the Assaluyeh petrochemical analyzable successful Bushehr state and shouted: "Do not fear, we basal together." A determination authoritative insisted it was related to a wages dispute.
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