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Dozens of protesters injured in Iran as security forces continue crackdown

DOZENS of protesters were injured on Sunday as Iranian security forces continued their crackdown on protest in the country.

Hundreds had gathered in the Iranian capital Tehran to protest the killing of yet another Kurdish woman at the hands of the authorities. 

The latest attack on protesters comes days after 16 were gunned down in the Baluchi area in south-east Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The number of people killed since protests were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16 is reported to be 304, including 41 children.

Nasrin Ghaderi, a woman from the city of Mariwan who lived in Tehran, was shot several times during a protest in the capital, sending her into a coma. She later died in hospital on Saturday night. 

The family was forced by intelligence forces to have a funeral without anyone present rather than in her home town of Mariwan.

The city in the Kurdish area of western Iran, Rojhelat, has seen continuous protests since the death of Ms Amin. 

Soran Mansournia, an activist whose brother was killed in the 2019 protests in Iran, said. “The security forces stole the body on its way to Mariwan and put pressure on her father Shater Ahmad to say his daughter had a seizure or the security forces would bury the body in an undisclosed location.”

Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, which monitors violations in the Kurdish areas in west and north-west Iran, reported that 35 people were wounded by the security forces. 

Videos from the scene published by the watchdog showed a large number of riot police in armoured vehicles had surrounded the family house of Ghaderi.

Kurdistan Human Rights Network, another organisation monitoring violations in the Kurdish areas, said that the security forces used tear gas and pellet guns, and that at least 10 people were wounded. 

At least 61 Kurdish protesters, including 11 children, have been killed. Human rights groups report that more than 4,000 have been detained in the Kurdish areas. 

Security forces on Friday carried out yet another massacre in the south-east of the country in the Baluchestan region where 16 protesters were gunned down with live ammunition, as depicted in dramatic videos taken by protesters in the town of Khash. 

Protesters were demanding answers about the September 30 massacre in which at least 92 Baluchi protesters were killed in the city of Zahedan.

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