Iranian protesters remain defiant with students staging sit-ins and some industrial workers going on strike despite a crackdown activists say has left dozens dead
Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally in support of Iranian protests in Paris as demonstrations against 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death spread beyond Iran's borders.
Rights group Hengaw accused authorities of using heavy weaponry, including "shelling" on neighbourhoods and "machine gun fire", in the northwestern city of Sanandaj — claims which could not be independently confirmed amid widespread internet blocks. Oslo-based non-government group Iran Human Rights shared images of a sit-in protest at the northern Gilan university and of high school girls in the northern town of Mahabad removing their headscarves.
This could make the protests an even bigger challenge to the authorities under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83, than the November 2019 protests against energy price hikes that were bloodily put down. While university students have played a pivotal role in the protests with dozens of universities on strike, unconfirmed reports on social media showed workers at Abadan and Kangan oil refineries and the Bushehr Petrochemical Project had joined in.
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