Tension remains intense in Iran, particularly in the province of Sistan-Balochistan. According to several NGOs, the security forces again fired on demonstrators in the capital of this province. At the same time, the authorities dismissed two senior security officials on site. The official media evoke a death and injuries, following shots ” unidentified “, this Friday, October 28 in Zahedan.
In Zahedan, the capital of Sistan-Baluchistan, in the southeast of the Islamic Republic of Iran, one person was killed as a result of gunfire ” unidentified “, and 14 others, including members of the security forces, were injured during ” riots this Friday, in the words of the official Irna news agency, citing the province’s Security Council.
Sistan-Balochistan, one of the poorest provinces of Iran, is regularly crossed by protest movements. As part of the current national revolt, the province was set ablaze on September 30, to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini, but also the rape of a young Baluch by a policeman in a port city of the province.
The repression of these demonstrations had then killed more than 90 people in a few hours, according to the NGO Iran Human Rights, including six members of the security forces, according to the authorities. Since then, despite the repression with live ammunition, the Baloch community has remained mobilized.
Today, an investigation by the province’s Security Council supports the authorities’ version: a crowd, some of whom were armed, had “ attacked the police station adjacent to the place of prayer with the intention of taking control of it “. However, since the police station and the mosque are very close, the shots fired by the police force would have “ unfortunately injured and killed a number of citizens who were performing their prayers and innocent pedestrians who were not involved “.
Two men at the head of the city’s security were sacked for ” neglect ”: the head of the police station in question and the commander of the city police. This announcement does not seem to have calmed the anger of a population that has suffered for years from the violence of the regime. This Friday again, demonstrators gathered at the end of the prayer.
According to the NGOs Iran Human Rights and Human Rights Activists News Agency, security forces opened fire again. The means of communication being very limited, it was not possible to know if these shootings had made victims, until the announcement of the Irna agency.
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