NGOs raise the dead in the protests in Iran to 185 and denounce the extrajudicial murder of a teenager

Iran Human Rights figures at 90 only those who died during the riots in Zahedan

Oct. 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The NGO Iran Human Rights has already put the number of deaths at 185, including 19 children, due to the repression by forces related to the Iranian authorities of the protests in the country over the death in custody of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini and has denounced in the last hours the murder of the 16-year-old protester Sarina Esmailzadeh after a beating by the security forces.

Almost half of the deceased were identified in the town of Zahedan, in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan, where 90 people lost their lives during a march held on September 30 to protest the rape of a 15-year-old Baloch girl by of the Chabaha Police Chief.

To the victims of Zahedan must be added another 27 dead in Mazandaran province, 12 in Gilan, 12 in Western Azerbaijan, 8 in Kurdistan, 8 in Tehran, 7 in Kermanshah, 5 in Alborz, three in Khorasan-Razavi, two in Kohgiluye, Isfahan, Zanjan, Qazvin and West Azerbaijan, and one each in Semnan, Ilam and Bushehr.

The latest balance is published after the NGO blamed the security forces for the murder of the young Sarina Esmailzadeh, a native of Karaj, who was beaten to death on September 22.

“After reviewing the evidence and speaking with eyewitnesses and close sources, Iran Human Rights confirms that Sarina has been the victim of an assassination carried out by state security forces,” the NGO denounces, before accusing the closest elements the Iranian government for trying to cover up his death as a suicide.

Iran Human Rights also calls on the international community to investigate the death of another protester, 17-year-old Nika Shakarami, after rejecting the official version that she fell from a building during the protests.

Family sources who were able to see the body, however, have a death certificate that specifies “multiple blows by a blunt object” as the cause of death, according to the NGO.