Two more die in Iran as protests continue after death of woman in custody

Two more people have been killed as anti-government rallies continued across Iran.

One man was shot dead yesterday while driving in the city of Sanandaj, in the Kurdish-majority north, while a second died in the same city when security forces fired gunshots to disperse crowds.

The protests erupted on September 17, after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who had died in the custody of Iran’s feared morality police.

Amini had been detained for an alleged violation of strict Islamic dress codes for women. Since then, protests spread across the country and were met by a fierce crackdown. A Norway-based Iranian human rights group said that a total of 154 people had died since protests began, while state media placed the number at 60. President Ebrahim Raisi told students from Tehran’s allfemale Al-Zahra University that foreign enemies were responsible.