News from Al-Madinah: Today, on Friday, Baluch leaders in Iran demanded a referendum on the constitution.
Mawlawi Abdul Hamid, the spiritual head of the Baluch people in Iran, urged the government to convene a public vote under international supervision.
“The protests cannot be silenced by killing, incarceration, and beating,” emphasised Abdel Hamid. Additionally, Abdel Hamid emphasised that “the people who have been protesting in the streets for 50 days will not be able to force it to recede.
In the southeast Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, which has been in a state of unrest for weeks, protests were started today in a square.
Internet video clips that have been registered show individuals moving through the governorate’s streets while some of them flung stones, shooting can be heard in the distance, and tear gas clouds grew more intense. While activists claimed that some of the marchers were slain, the clothes of several of them looked to be stained with blood.
For its part, the official Iranian “IRNA” news agency reported that protesters set fire to a police point in Khash in Sistan-Bluchistan, and attacked the local ruler’s office.
In the majority-populated region of Sistan-Baluchistan, protests against the Iranian government have been ongoing for several weeks.
On September 30, also known as “bloody Friday,” the security forces’ intervention during protests in the province’s capital city of Zahedan resulted in dozens of fatalities.
Since September 16, protests have broken out across Iran in response to the murder of Muhsa Amini, a young woman of 22 years old, 3 days after her arrest by the Ethics Police, which is charged with enforcing laws governing how women should dress.
The episode caused intense public outrage in Iranian political and media circles.
The unrest that erupted in Iran for more than six weeks following Muhsa Amini’s passing was one of the greatest threats to the government’s stability since the revolution of 1979.
Human Rights Association in Iran activists who monitor the repression of the protesters claim that since the unrest began, at least 300 protesters have died and 14,000 have been detained.
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Iran demands a constitutional referendum.
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