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Rights Group: 106 Killed in Iran's Crackdown on Anti-Government Protests

Michael Lipin

   Amnesty International says Iranian security forces have killed at least
   106 people in nationwide anti-government protests since Friday, four
   times the death toll of Iran's last mass protests two years ago.

   In a Tuesday interview with VOA Persian, the London-based rights
   group's Iran researcher Raha Bahreini said Amnesty determined that
   security forces killed 106 protesters based on eyewitness accounts,
   social media videos and reports of exiled Iranian human rights
   activists. She said Amnesty International soon would provide a
   breakdown of the number of protesters killed in various Iranian cities.

   VOA Persian has independently confirmed the killings of at least seven
   protesters in shootings by Iranian security forces on Saturday. Iranian
   state media have said several people have been killed including at
   least one security force member in the demonstrations that began Friday
   and spread to dozens of cities. But the Iranian government has not
   published any official death toll.

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