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Tehran – Angry residents from the town of
Baneh in Kurdistan province (Western Iran) attacked
the governor’s office with stones and sticks at the
start of the New Year after hearing of the murder of
an individual by State Security Forces (SSF).
Eyewitnesses reported seeing shattered glass from
the windows of the governor’s office scattered
nearby.
Protests erupted after news of the circumstances of
the death of Ibrahim Hassanzadeh spread among
locals. Agents of the SSF reportedly stopped
Hassanzadeh on the bridge leading to the Bouin
village and then shot him at point blank on January
01.
Upon hearing the news on the same day residents
stormed the governor’s office demanding
repercussions for those involved in the murder.
Locals said that authorities brought in a number of
Special Forces agents to fight off the crowd via
helicopters from the nearby city of Sanandaj.
On January 04 a member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament)
admitted to the systematic use of excess force by
security forces against citizens.
Fakhroldin Heydari, the Majlis deputy from Baneh
revealed that two individuals in his constituency
were shot and killed by “aggressive security forces”
in the past month and a number of others were badly
wounded.
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