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New protests in Iran as death toll passes 400
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JEDDAH, 29 October 2022, (TON): Thousands of Iranians took to the streets again as a six-week wave of nationwide protests showed no sign of abating.
Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Zahedan in the southeast, dissidents said the regime had lost control of the northern Kurdish city of Mahabad, and half the members of the notorious Basij militia in Tehran failed to turn up for work enforcing the crackdown on protests.
Rights groups said “unlawful killings by regime police and soldiers had killed at least eight people in four provinces within 24 hours, including two in Baneh near Iran’s western border with Iraq.”
Dissident activists said more than 400 people had now died in the regime’s repression of protests that began after Mahsa Amin, 22, from Kurdistan province, died in morality police custody on Sept. 16.
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