Iran restricts internet access after days of protests that have claimed at least 11 lives, following the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police
The demonstrations in Iran began over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman held by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating its dress code.
Iran has restricted internet access after days of protests that have claimed at least 11 lives, following the death of a young woman in the custody of the morality police. Three security officers were stabbed or shot dead after they had been “mobilised to deal with rioters”, in Mashhad in the northeast, Qazvin in the centre and Tabriz in the northwest, Iranian news agencies reported on Thursday.
A fourth member of the security forces was killed in the southern city of Shiraz, they said, adding that a protester had also been stabbed to death in Qazvin.Four died in Kurdistan, the home province of Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death last week triggered the protests, and two in Kermanshah, another province with a large Kurdish community.
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