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Iran’s safety forces shot at protesters and used tear gasoline within the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqez in contemporary protests on Saturday afternoon, as weeks of nationwide demonstrations gathered momentum.
In Sanandaj, safety forces shot and killed a driver in his automotive, whereas in one of many colleges in Saqqez, two academics have been injured, based on the Iranian human rights group Hengaw.
Another protester was shot within the stomach by IRGC safety forces and died, Hengaw mentioned.
“Students in the schools in Sanandaj and Saqqez started the protests. Then government forces started an attack on one of the schools in Saqqez,” Azhin Sheikhi, from Hengaw informed CNN on Saturday.
Widespread strikes are going down in Saqez, Diwandareh, Mahabad, and Sanandaj, mentioned Hengaw.
The Norway-registered Hengaw human rights group has been monitoring human rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish area, the place the protests started three weeks in the past, following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish lady, whereas in custody of the morality police. Saqez can be her hometown.
Meanwhile, protests additionally continued in different areas throughout the nation on Saturday together with Tehran, Karaj, Esfahan, Shiraz, Kerman, Mashhad, Tabriz and Rasht.
Speaking at Alzahra University, an all-girls establishment in Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi commented on the most recent riots throughout the nation.
“The enemy thought that they could follow their desires inside the university, unaware that our students and professors were awake and would not allow the enemy’s false dreams to come true,” Raisi mentioned based on an announcement issued by his workplace.
Social media video confirmed protests on the similar college with ladies chanting “Death to the oppressor, whether it be the Shah or the Supreme Leader.”
It was unclear if the protest passed off whereas the president was on the college.
Video supplied to US-funded Radio Farda additionally confirmed riot police beating up a younger lady in Tehran.
Total loss of life toll figures since protests kicked off differ from authorities, opposition teams, worldwide rights organizations and native journalists.
An Iran-focused human rights group primarily based in Norway, IranHR, tallied the variety of deaths because the protests began throughout Iran at 154. Human Rights Watch mentioned as of September 31, Iranian state affiliated media positioned the variety of deaths at 60.
CNN can not independently confirm the loss of life toll – a exact determine is unimaginable for anybody exterior the Iranian authorities to verify – and totally different estimates have been given by opposition teams, worldwide rights organizations and native journalists.