Iran Human Rights (IHR) paints a heavy human toll of the crackdown on protests that began in Iran on September 16.
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More than 75 people have been killed in Iran in the crackdown on protests sparked ten days ago by the death of a young woman in the custody of vice police. This was declared on Monday, September 26, by an NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR).
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The Iranian authorities have so far given a death toll of 41 including protesters and police. They also announced the arrest of more than 1,200 demonstrators.
LNGO IHR, based in Oslo, ensures to have obtained of the “videos and death certificates confirming live ammunition fired at protesters”. Among the 76 people killed, according to the NGO, there are “six wives and four children”.
The protests erupted on September 16 after the death in hospital of 22-year-old Iranian girl Mahsa Amini, arrested three days earlier for breaking the strict dress code for women in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
They are the largest since those of November 2019, caused by the rise in gasoline prices in Iran, which had been severely repressed (230 dead according to an official report, more than 300 according to Amnesty International).