Iran: demonstrations and strike after the death of Mahsa Amini arrested by the morality police

Mahsa Amini on the front page of the press, in Tehran, on September 18.

VIA REUTERS - WANA NEWS AGENCY

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The Iranian province of Kurdistan is on strike on Monday to protest against the death Friday of a young woman after her arrest by the morality police.

Since then, demonstrations have multiplied between Tehran and Saqqez, his hometown in Kurdistan. 

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The facts took place last Tuesday.

is arrested for wearing the incorrect veil in Tehran.

She comes out of the police station on a stretcher, in a coma and dies three days later in the hospital. 

On Saturday, at her funeral in Saqqez, in the northwestern province of Kurdistan, women removed their veils in a crowd chanting "Death to dictatorship".

From the cemetery, the crowd made its way to the office of the local governor.

Protesters threw projectiles at the portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Same rally in Sanandaj, the capital of the province of Kurdistan. 

Demonstrations suppressed

As with every demonstration, the crowd was violently suppressed.

According to the Kurdish human rights organization Hendaw, a total of 38 people were injured, while thirteen were arrested.

Echoing this, in Tehran, students also gathered.

On social media, some women posted videos of them cutting their hair or burning their hijab.

The Kurdish political parties have therefore called for a general strike on Monday in a region with independence ambitions, particularly controlled by the regime. 

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