Iranian security forces shoot at protesters and fire tear gas into crowds in the predominantly Kurdish-populated cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, according to a rights group, as demonstrators press ahead over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
Protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the country's morality police have stretched into a third week.
After a call for mass demonstrations on Saturday, security forces shot at protesters and used tear gas in the predominantly Kurdish-populated cities of Sanandaj and Saqez, according to the Iranian human rights group Hengaw. In Sanandaj, capital of Kurdistan Province in northwest Iran, one man lay dead in his car while a woman screamed "shameless", according to Hengaw.
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