At least 9 people have been killed in five days of popular protests in various cities in Iran.
Five days after the protests in various cities in Iran, there are no exact figures on the number of people killed, injured, or arrested. The governor of Kurdistan has confirmed that three people have been killed in the province, while the prosecutor of Kermanshah has reported that two people have been killed in the city.
Radio Farda's investigation has so far confirmed the deaths of six protesters. IRNA also reported the death of a police officer in Shiraz.
Since September 16, when Mahsa Amini, a young girl who died in the custody of the Ershad patrol, was buried in Saqqez, first the city of Saqqez, and then other cities in the Kurdistan province and other cities in Iran, has been the scene of popular protests.
The protests, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of a number of protesters due to violence by special guards and security forces and direct shooting, have resulted in the deaths and injuries of several protesters. Radio Farda's investigation confirms the identities of six of those killed.
Radio Farda sources say that Fereydoun Mahmoudi died on September 19 in the city of Saqqez from a gunshot wound.
Radio Farda has also learned that Fouad Qadim was wounded by a bullet in the city of Divandarreh on September 19. He died on September 20 at Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj.
Mohsen Mohammadi is another protester in the city of Divandareh who was directly targeted by bullets on September 19, and Radio Farda has been able to confirm his identity.
Reza Lotfi is another protester who was shot by Special Guard officers in the city of Dehgolan on September 19, and Farjad Darvishi died of a gunshot wound in the city of Urmia on September 20.
Zakaria Khial, a 16-year-old teenager, also died from a gunshot wound in Piranshahr on September 19.
In addition to these statistics, human rights sources report the deaths of a number of other protesters; including the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, which named Hajar Abbasi, a woman from Mahabad, as one of the dead, and announced that Ms. Abbasi was injured and died after being hit in the face by a shotgun pellet.
The network also reported that during Tuesday's protests in the city of Kermanshah, a 55-year-old woman named Minoo Majidi was killed by riot police.
Radio Farda has not been able to independently confirm these two reports.
Meanwhile, Shahram Karami, the governor of Kermanshah, announced that the two fatalities in the province were targeted with non-organizational weapons.
On September 19, the governor of Kurdistan said about the killing of three protesters in the cities of the province, that one of them, a resident of the city of Divandareh, was killed with a military weapon. Without mentioning the identities of these people, Ismail Zareikosha said that another person in the same condition was found in a car next to Saqqez Hospital, and said about the third person that the matter is under investigation.
At the same time, the IRNA news agency reported that three police officers were injured during the evening rally in Shiraz on September 19, and a police assistant also died from his injuries.
Source: Radio Farda
