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(Bloomberg) — Iranian protesters have organized protests and movements across the country to mark a classic rite of mourning for Mahsa Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in police custody sparked nationwide riots.
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Crowds piled up at the cemetery where he buried Amini on the outskirts of Saghez in Iran’s Kurdistan province, and Iran’s semi-official student news firm estimated the number of protesters at around 10,000. Internet was cut in the region for security reasons, he added.
A video posted on Twitter via Oslo-based Iran Human Rights showed others walking on a four-lane road purportedly heading to the cemetery. The images were verified via Bloomberg.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a Paris-based non-governmental organization, said the protests then moved beyond public squares and the city’s governor, with security forces firing bullets and tear gas.
Wednesday’s demonstrations followed thousands of posts on Twitter, Instagram and Telegram calling for giant protests to mark 40 days since Amini’s death, a historic milestone in Iran’s mourning process.
Strikes
Strikes were reported in several cities, including Tehran, where state-owned Tehran Oil Refining Co. organized strikes, according to an unverified video posted on Twitter. They returned to work after obtaining assurances from officials that they did not specify “union problems. “it would be resolved, IRNA reported, citing a refinery spokesman.
The site, on the southern outskirts of the capital, can refine 250,000 barrels of crude per day.
Human rights organization Hengaw said seven Kurdish villages in the west of the country went on all-out strike, and that all businesses and schools ended that day. They included Saghez, where Amini is buried and where protests began at her funeral on September 17. .
Strikes and demonstrations were also reported in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province and the site of some of the maximum violent crackdowns on protesters by security forces.
On Tuesday night, Hengaw said Ali Daei, a prominent footballer who spoke out in favour of the protests, had travelled to Saghez to attend ceremonies at Amini’s tomb but was detained overnight by security forces at his hotel and is being held in a government guesthouse. Reports may simply not be verified through Bloomberg.
Amini died on Sept. 16 after falling into a coma when the so-called “morality police” arrested her for allegedly violating Islamic dress codes during a holiday in Tehran with her family, triggering one of the Islamic Republic’s fiercest public rebuks since the 1979 revolution. .
Authorities attempted to quell the protests through force, pointing shotguns, stun guns, pepper spray and batons at demonstrators. Thousands of others have been arrested and at least 400 others will stand trial on broad national security charges.
Oslo-based Iran Human Rights said on Tuesday it had shown the deaths of 234 protesters so far, 29 children, all killed by security forces.
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