1 dead as Iran forces fire on crowd at slain protesters’ memorial, says rights group

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1 dead as Iran forces fire on crowd at slain protesters’ memorial, says rights groupSecurity forces gunfire toward mourners also wounds 8, two of them critically, says Norway-based organization; activists call for further demonstrationsPARIS — Iran’s security forces fired on a crowd in the Kurdish-populated west on Saturday, killing a 22-year-old, a rights group said, more than 100 days after the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini sparked nationwide protests.On Friday, hundreds took to the streets of the southeastern city of Zahedan, which has seen weekly protests since the security forces killed more than 90 people in the city on September 30, in what has been dubbed “Bloody Friday.”Footage shared by protest monitor 1500tasvir and verified by AFP shows the crowd in the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial capital chanting “Death to the dictator,” taking aim at Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.“Death to Khamenei!”#MahsaAminipic.twitter.com/fISZeVDlsh— 1500tasvir_en (@1500tasvir_en) December 30, 2022Sistan-Baluchistan, an impoverished province on Iran’s border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, had been the site of often deadly violence even before protests erupted over Amini’s death.Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, was hanged in public on December 12 after being sentenced to death by a court in Iran’s second city Mashhad for killing two members of the security forces with a knife.The judiciary has said nine others have been sentenced to death, while IHR said this week that dozens of protesters face charges that can carry the death penalty."

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