Iran intensifies its crackdown on Kurdish areas

Iran intensified its crackdown on Kurdish areas as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on. According to media reports, the riot police fired into at least one neighborhood in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province.

Subsequent videos have shown security forces beating and shoving female protesters, including women who have torn off their mandatory headscarf, or



hijab.

 

However, Iran’s government insists Amini was not mistreated, but her family said that her body showed bruises and other signs of beating. 

Protests began in Iran after Ms. Mahsa Amini died on 16th of September after being taken into the custody of the morality police for allegedly not following the country’s strict dress code.