Mahsa Amini's home province
Iranian activists called for nationwide protests Wednesday in response to a bloody crackdown on demonstrations over Mahsa Amini's death that a human rights group says has killed at least 108 people.
"Be the voice of Sanandaj," said a flier distributed by protest organisers and seen online, referring to the city in Amini's home province of Kurdistan where security forces have been accused of shelling neighbourhoods.
Protests have swept Iran since September 16, when Amini died after falling into a coma following her arrest in Tehran by the morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
Activists have called for protesters to turn out "in solidarity with the people of Sanandaj and the heroic people of Zahedan", a southeastern city where demonstrations erupted on September 30 over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police commander.
The nationwide protests over Amini's death have seen young women, university students and schoolchildren remove their headscarves and face security forces on the streets.
"Woman, life, freedom" and "Death to the dictator", they have chanted, in the biggest wave of social unrest to grip the Islamic republic since violence erupted in 2019 over a fuel price hike.
Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said the crackdown on the Amini protests had left at least 108 people dead, and that the security forces killed at least another 93 people in Zahedan.