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TEHRAN, KOMPAS.com – Demo Iran spread to 15 cities in the country after death Mahsa Aminia young woman who was arrested by the police for wearing hijab inappropriately.
State media IRNA Wednesday (9/21/2022) reported that demonstrations entered on the fifth night and police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse crowds of up to 1,000 people.
Protesters blocked roads, threw stones at security forces, set fire to police vehicles and garbage cans and shouted anti-government slogans, he added.
Public anger has flared up since the authorities on Friday (9/16/2022) announced the death of Mahsa Amini (22). She was arrested by the moral police, responsible for enforcing a strict dress code for women.
On Tuesday night (09/13/2022), Mahsa Amini and her family who had traveled from Kurdistan to visit relatives in Tehran were stopped by a police moral patrol.
Amini fell into a coma after being arrested for wearing a veil inappropriately, the news agency reported. AFP.
Last night demonstrations broke out in the capital Tehran and other major cities, including Mashhad in the northeast, Tabriz in the northwest, Rasht in the north, Isfahan in the center and Shiraz in the south. IRNA report.
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Ismail Zarei Koosha, governor of Kurdistan – the Amini province where the demonstrations began – said Tuesday that three people were killed during the protests in the province, but did not say when.
Mahsa Amini’s death and Iran’s response to the demonstrations have drawn condemnation from the United Nations, the United States, France and other countries.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani (20/9/2022) on Tuesday denounced the response from abroad as a foreign interventionist stance.
“It is regrettable that some countries are trying to exploit the incidents being investigated as an opportunity to pursue their own political goals and wishes against the Iranian government and people,” he said.
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