New protests in Iran after the funeral of the killed protesters

Protests against the Iranian government regained vigor after the funeral commemorating the people killed by the security forces. The police initiated a further round of arrests and repression.


Dozens of cities in Iran were shaken by protests on Wednesday night, on the day the crowd - young boys - remembered the 40th day since the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish woman who died while in police custody.


Official news agencies spoke of an attack that left 15 people dead and 30 injured after three extremists shot pilgrims inside the shrine Shah Cerāgh a Shiraz.
Yesterday the demonstrators, for a few moments, took control of Mahabad, a city of 200 inhabitants on the border with Iraq, where most of the population is of Kurdish origin.


Secondo hengaw, a Norway-based organization that monitors human rights violations, riots in Kurdish regions of Iran erupted Wednesday when a 35-year-old Kurdish man named Ismaeli Maludi, was shot to death. Another protester was shot in the neighboring area Sanandaj.


Yesterday after Maludi's funeral, a crowd attacked a police station and the governor's office singing "Death to the dictator" and "to Kurdistan, cemetery of the fascists. "
A video demonstrates crowded streets with protesters, a smoke-shrouded bank and a burning police station.
Official news agencies reported that the protesters broke the windows of the banks, the post office and the registry office but did not confirm that the police station was occupied.


All activities stopped yesterday due to the continuation of the protests. The official media reported: “lhe city is completely calm, life is normal and the firefighters and rescue services are busy cleaning the city after the fires in the garbage cans."
The crowd also gathered at the burial site of Nika Shakarami, 16, who died in Tehran on 20 September. Officials said she committed suicide and that she had problems with depression. But the footage released by CNN seems to support the thesis that she may have been killed during the protests. The footage shows the woman hiding behind a car as she flees the security forces.
Nika's aunt urged the crowd to attend the commemoration, but the security forces tried to stop it.

His family claims that the state buried his body without their permission in Vasian village in Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan province.
Screams and chants during his commemoration praised: "death in Khamenei". Nasrin, Nika's mother, said: “I will always be in agony for your sufferings, but I love you. When I see the pure seed of your thought - freedom, courage and honor - blossoms in the hearts of other loved ones, I am happy and grateful. "

Nasrin previously said in an interview with the Persian BBC: " Like Nika, I have been against the hijab requirement since I was a child. But my generation wasn't brave enough to protest.
People my age accepted years of suppression, intimidation and humiliation, but my daughter protested and she had every right to do so. "

Iranian human rights groups said they received unconfirmed reports that some members of Amini's family are under house arrest.
The protests also took on a more explicitly anticlerical flavor. The Ayatollah Java by Amoli, one of the leading conservative politicians and scholars, called on the state to react: "We are not worried, but officials should wake up and stop insolence, embezzlement, betrayal and banditry, so as not to threaten the country. entire".

New protests in Iran after the funeral of the killed protesters

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