At least 44 protesters shot and wounded in six days of protests across Iran
Investigations by Iran International show at least 44 protesters were shot with live ammunition or pellet guns and wounded during six days of demonstrations in Iran, with dozens more injured by baton beatings and assaults by security forces and plainclothes agents.
The figure covers only cases that Iran International was able to document through field reporting and interviews with protesters, their families and other sources, and does not include all those hurt.
Those shot were aged between 14 and 35, while people injured by beatings were mostly 15 to 40, with cases reported in cities including Azna, Fooladshahr, Kavar, Kouhdasht, Lordegan, Marvdasht and Nurabad in Lorestan.
Some of the injured were school-age girls and boys, with severe bruising reported and at least one case in which a victim’s teeth were broken.
