Paris: At least eighty two human beings had been killed via way of means of Iranian protection forces withinside the metropolis of Zahedan withinside the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province considering protests erupted there on September 30, Amnesty International stated on Thursday.
In a violent crackdown after Friday prayers on September 30, protection forces killed at the least sixty six human beings, consisting of kids, Amnesty stated.
Since then, sixteen human beings had been killed in an ongoing clampdown on protests, it brought, caution the actual rely is in all likelihood to be even higher.
With Iran already convulsed via way of means of protests over the dying of Mahsa Amini who were arrested via way of means of the Tehran morality police, the protests in Zahedan had been induced via way of means of anger over the stated rape of a teenage woman via way of means of a police commander withinside the region.
Amnesty stated that protection forces fired “stay ammunition, steel pellets and teargas” at protesters, bystanders and worshippers while a collection of human beings amassed for a protest outdoor a police station after Friday prayers on September 30 in Zahedan.
“Evidence amassed via way of means of Amnesty International indicates that almost all of sufferers had been shot withinside the head, heart, neck and torso, revealing a clean rationale to kill or significantly harm.”
It brought that the firing had come from the “police station rooftop”. At least 3 kids had been killed on September 30, it brought.
Iranian officers have characterized the unrest as assaults via way of means of “extremists” on police stations that left 5 contributors of the Revolutionary Guards dead.
But Amnesty stated that beyond “a minority” of protesters throwing stones closer to the police station, it had found “no evidence” the behavior of protesters posed a severe danger to protection forces.