: Heres What Has Happened in Iran Since the Death of Mahsa Amini #WorldNEWS In the wake of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody of the Irans morality police last month, civil unrest

Heres What Has Happened in Iran Since the Death of Mahsa Amini #WorldNEWS
In the wake of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in custody of the Irans morality police last month, civil unrest in the country has grown to a scale larger than what Iran has experienced in years. Protesters are calling for justice for Amini as well as personal and political liberties and accountability from the nation’s government.
Rights groups say the protests, which have spread to more than 80 cities in Iran, have led to hundreds of arrests, including numerous journalists, and violence against protesters. Internet access remains limited in the country as the Iranian government strictly regulates its usage. Those analyzing the country’s protests say that the movement likely won’t die down soon.

Here’s what to know:
The protests have been deadly
Since protests began in mid-September, its unclear how many people have died at the hands of police during the protests. On Sept. 26, Iran’s state-run broadcasting service reported that 41 people had died including protestors and security forces. But Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norway-based nonprofit, reported on Oct. 4 that at least 154 people had died in the protests.
At least 66 deaths reportedly took placeon Sept. 30 in Zahedan, now called “Bloody Friday,” according to Amnesty International. Security forces in Zahedan, the capital of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, and home to some of the highest death counts since protests began, initiated a brutal crackdown where they deployed live ammunition, metal pellets and teargas on protesters, worshippers and bystanders after Friday prayers outside the city’s main mosque.
The death of 16-year-old protestor Nika Shakarami
Nika Shakarami, a teenage protestor whose mother alleges that security forces murdered her, is one of the highest-profile cases of a young person dying in the protests.
Shakarami went missing on Sept. 20 in Tehran after sending a friend a message that she was being followed by the police.
Authorities claim that Shakarami had gone into a building that night where construction workers may have pushed her from a high point and that her body was found outside the next morning.
Tehran judiciary official, Mohammad Shahriari, told the state media that Shakarami had sustained multiple fractures in the pelvis, head, upper and lower limbs, arms and legs, which indicate that the person was thrown from a height.
Her family disputes this account, and Shakarami’s mother spoke out in a video to Radio Farda that the injuries she saw on her daughter’s body were very different from what authorities described. BBC reports that Shakaramis mother said a forensic report indicated that Shakarami was killed by blunt force trauma to the head and a death certificate obtained by BBC stated that she suffered multiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object.

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