Online videos from Tehran and other centres appear to show demonstrations including anti-government chants as execution of protesters commemorated
said. Associated Press could not immediately verify the videos, many of which had been blurred or showed grainy night-time scenes.
In Iran’s western Kurdish regions, online videos shared by the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights showed burning roadblocks in Sanandaj, which has seen repeated demonstrations since Amini’s death. Hengaw shared one video that included digitally altered voices shouting: “Death to the Dictator!” That call has been repeatedly heard in the demonstrations, targeting Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Other videos purportedly shot in Tehran had similar chants, as well as scenes of heavily protected riot police in the street.Since they began, at least 529 people have been killed in demonstrations, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran.
Forty-day commemorations for the dead are common in Iran and the wider Middle East. But they also can turn into cyclical confrontations between an increasingly disillusioned public and security forces that turn to greater violence to suppress them, as they had in the chaos leading up to Iran’s 1979 revolution.
Iran’s hardline government has alleged, without offering evidence, that the demonstrations are a foreign plot, rather than homegrown anger.
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