We’re learning more about some of the people killed in recent days as protests rock Iran.
An internet blackout has extended into a fifth day, but some details have been emerging, often through human rights groups with connections inside the country.
The dead include a sculptor from the eastern city of Mashhad, according to Hengaw, a Norway-based human rights organization.
Mehdi Salahshur, a married father of two, was killed when security forces fired on protesters with live ammunition, Hengaw said, citing a report it had received.
In addition to his own artwork, Salahshur was a sculpture instructor and owned a stone-carving workshop, according to Hengaw.
In the capital, two female students at Tehran University were killed by government forces during public protests last week.
Aida Heydari, a 21-year-old medical student and Zahra Bahlolipour, a 19-year-old studying Italian, were killed by direct fire from government forces, Hengaw reported.
Protests have been reported in numerous cities across all of Iran’s 31 provinces.
In a sign of just how far they’ve spread, protesters have also been reportedly killed on the island of Qeshm in the far south of the country near the strait of Hormuz.
One of them, Ako Mohammadi, was a 22-year-old Kurdish man originally from Salas Babajani in the country’s northwest. He was shot and killed by government forces while protesting in the city of Qeshm on the east of the island, according to Hengaw.
Citing “an informed source,” the Norway-based human rights organization said Iranian authorities had demanded money in order to return his body.
Read more about the people killed in Iran’s protests here.
