More than 50 arrested in new protests in the Iranian city of Zahedan

MADRID, 21 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Iranian Police have reported the arrest of at least 57 demonstrators after a series of protests that have broken out in recent hours in the Iranian city of Zahedan, a Sunni majority, located in the east of the country.

The police commander of the province of Sistan and Balochistan, Ahmed Tameri, has confirmed the balance of detainees, while specifying that police operations continue to stop the protesters, whom he has called "thugs and rioters".

"All those who destroy public property will be identified and arrested. The safety of people is the red line of the Police, which remains firm in carrying out this important mission," he added, according to the ISNA news agency. .

After Friday prayers in one of the city's mosques, a group of more than 100 people has gathered in the streets of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Balochistan province, shouting slogans such as "Death to Khamenei" or "Death to to the dictator."

The last protests on October 1 cost the life of the head of Intelligence of the Revolutionary Guard in the province, identified as Ali Musavi, as confirmed by the state news agency Tasnim, also related to the ideological wing of the Iranian Army.

After his death, the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, assigned the Minister of the Interior, Ahmed Vahidi, an "exhaustive" investigation into these disturbances, which resulted in more than 60 deaths, after the rape of a 15-year-old Baloch girl by part of the Chabahar Police chief.

For its part, Amnesty International estimated the dead, according to its counts, at 82, in protests in which Iranian security forces used bullets, metal pellets and tear gas to disperse the crowd.