At least four demonstrators were killed during the weekend, some of whom were with real bullets, in Sanandadj, capital of the province of Kurdistan.
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Monday, October 10, for the third consecutive day, Sanandadj, the capital of the Iranian Kurdistan province in western Iran, was the scene of demonstrations against power and fierce repression, making This city the beating heart of the current uprising. Internet was cut there until midnight, local time (10:30 p.m., time in Paris). Before that, almost no message or image had left the region, while, during the weekend of October 8 and 9, repression killed at least four people, some by real bullets, unlike cities Like Tehran where rubber bullets are used in abundance. The number of residents arrested is important but remains impossible to determine precisely, among them demonstrators, human rights activists and journalists.
The uprising in Iran, started on September 16 following the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the moral police in Tehran, entered her fourth week. According to the Iran Human Rights group, an organization based in Oslo, at least 185 people were killed by the soldiers (revolution guards) and by the police deployed by the regime. According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the organization installed in Paris, in the Kurdish regions, the record would be 30 victims. According to the Official Government Journal, Iran, on October 8, 24 members of the security forces were killed in “the riots”.
“In recent days, I have been in Sanandadj, Marivan [another Kurdish city] and Tehran. I only attended the use of firearms, like Kalashnikovs, only in both Kurdish cities, and this from the first days of demonstrations, explains Soheil (a pseudonym at the request of the person concerned), a demonstrator living in the capital of Iranian Kurdistan, attached by the encrypted Telegram messaging. In Sanandadj, they drew on people blindly when the latter had no weapons and had only stones to defend themselves. “
Released in the street, Saturday October 8, Soheil was able to observe in the morning a heavy presence of security forces, sometimes in civilian clothes. “They very quickly started to shoot people. It set fire to the powder. The inhabitants became furious,” said Soheil. I saw a man, shot in the head, die behind the wheel of his car. Like many others, he was poisoning, as a sign of protest. They were shooting real bullets on us. As if we and they, we did not belong to the same country. “
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