By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's rulers have intensified a clampdown on dissent nearly one year since the death in police custody of Mahsa ...
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News of her death circulated on social media. Protests erupted at her funeral in her hometown Saqez and then spread across the country with demonstrators chanting"Woman, life, freedom" in a furious challenge to Iran's clerical rulers. The protests were particularly intense in areas home to ethnic minorities that have long faced discrimination by the state, including Kurds in the northwest and Baluchis in the southeast.
Rights groups said over 500 people - including 71 minors - were killed, hundreds wounded and thousands arrested. Iran carried out seven executions linked to the unrest. Authorities described the veil as"one of the principles of the Islamic Republic" and ordered both private and public sectors to deny services to any women who had discarded it, temporarily closing thousands of non-compliant businesses.
Activists have accused authorities of a campaign to intimidate and instil fear, arresting, summoning for questioning, threatening or firing people connected to the protests.
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