NEWS CENTER – The up rising East Kurdistan (Rojhilat) and Iran under the slogans of “Women, Life, Freedom, Kurdistan, Kurdistan will be the graveyard of Fascism” continue for more than two months as demonstrations continues. Jina Amini died on September 16 after three days in hospital, where her health deteriorated due to torture by the Iranian moral police.
Although the occupying and bloodthirsty regime of Iran wanted to pass the death of Jina Amini as a normal death, her relatives and freedom-loving people of Rojhilat refused and she was buried in a massive ceremony on September 17 with slogans against the Iranian regime Beginning the demonstrations in East Kurdistan and Iran.
The uprisings quickly spread throughout Iran and the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” became the main slogan of the uprisings. According to the Iranian Human Rights Organization, the death toll from the uprisings has risen to at least 342, with at least 43 of the dead being under the age of 18, nine of them girls and three Afghan children.
Yesterday, demonstrations were held in most Kurdish cities and Iranian cities and a bloody day was spent and 18 people were reportedly killed by Iranian repressive forces. Large-scale demonstrations and rallies were held in Sanaa, Bokan, Saqiz, Kamyar, Bana, Qurva, Mahabad, Divandareh, Kermanshah, Ilam, Abdanan, Urmia and several other areas.
At least six people have been killed in protests in East Kurdistan, according to human rights activists and sources.
Demonstrations were held in Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran, Kerman, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas and many other places.
Seven protesters were killed in the city of Iza in Khuzestan province, official government media said, but no independent sources confirmed the claim.
In Isfahan’s Samirom city, official media confirmed at least three protesters were killed, while two Basij members were killed and six others injured in Isfahan.