Iran announced on Friday that it had arrested nine foreigners during protests linked to the death in mid-September of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody.
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Iranian security forces have arrested nine nationals of European countries - including France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden - the Iranian intelligence ministry said.
“Nine nationals […] have been arrested at the scene, or are involved in the riots,” the Iranian intelligence ministry said in a statement.
These nine unidentified people were arrested "during riots or while conspiring in the shadows," the ministry said in a statement released by Iranian media.
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These protests, harshly repressed by security forces, have erupted in many cities of the Islamic Republic since the death on September 16 of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd of 22, after his arrest by the vice police for wearing clothes "not appropriate".
With AFP and Reuters
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