Ten people die as protests across Iran continue in the wake of a 22-year-old woman's death, which followed her arrest by Tehran's morality police.
abc.net.au/news/iranian-protesters-set-fire-to-police-station-as-unrest-over-wom/101466898Protesters in Tehran and several other Iranian cities have torched police stations and vehicles as unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic's morality police intensified for a sixth day.Her death has unleashed Iran's worst protests since 2019
A Kurdish rights group claims three protesters were killed on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from the unrest to 10The authorities have said they would launch an investigation into her death, which has unleashed huge anger and the worst protests in Iran since 2019. Most protests have been concentrated in Iran's Kurdish-populated north-western regions, but have spread to the capital and at least 50 cities and towns nationwide, with police using force to disperse protesters.Social media footage, apparently filmed at protests in the north-east, showed demonstrators shouting "we will die, we will die but we'll get Iran back" near a police station, which was set on fire.
The footage, which could not be verified, was posted on the Twitter account @1500tasvir, which focuses on Iranian protests and has more than 100,000 followers. Another police station was set ablaze in the capital Tehran as the unrest spread from Kurdistan, the home province of Ms Amini.Watch
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