One month after the “Bloody Friday” demonstrations, which resulted in the death and injury of many people in Iran’s Zahidan province, protests were held after Friday prayers. The protesters, who took to the streets again in Zahidan and Chabahar and Hash cities, chanted anti-government slogans.
While women chanted “Veiled or unveiled, onwards to revolution,”, many activists marched with slogans of “Down with the dictator”. The demonstrators also called for the release of political prisoners and not to be executed.
A Sunni cleric and Friday Imam of the city of Zahidan, Mevlevi Abdulhamid Ismailzehi, also called for the release of the dissidents who are against the execution order under religious justifications.
In the demonstrations known as “Bloody Friday”, on September 30, clashes broke out between the protesters and Iranian security forces. Iranian authorities announced that armed groups attacked the police station near the mosque and an armed conflict broke out as the security forces responded. Ismailzehi, on the other hand, said that the security forces opened fire on the people and called on the authorities to seriously investigate the incident in his speech on October 2.
While the State Security Council announced that 35 people had lost their lives so far, activists in Balochistan defended that the death toll was about 100.