Internet disappears in Iran amid new police killings
Iran has cut off the internet in Sindagh, Kurdistan, in an attempt to quell a growing protest movement amid reports of new killings.
“Live network data shows that the Internet was cut off in Sindaj, Kurdistan Region, Iran, amid reports of new killings during the protests over the killing of Mahsa Amini,” NetBlock said in a tweet.
NetBlocks reported the most severe internet outages since 2019, when Iranian authorities also shut down the internet amid anti-government protests, as the international community struggled to track the ensuing crackdown.
According to the Kurdish Hingau human rights organization, Iranian security forces fired on protesters and used tear gas in the Kurdish cities of Sanandaj and Saqqaz at noon on Saturday.
Security forces shot and killed a driver in his car in Sanandaj, while two teachers at a school in Saqqaz were injured, and another protester was shot in the stomach by IRGC security forces and died as a result, according to Hengao.
Protests have begun in Sanandaj schools. The government forces then launched an attack on a school in Saqqaz,” Azin Chikhi of Hengau told CNN on Saturday.
Hengaw reported large-scale strikes in Saqqaz, Diwandarh, Mahabad, and Sanandaj.
Hengau, a human rights organization registered in Norway, monitors human rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish region, where protests have been ongoing for three weeks following the death of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd, while in moral police custody. Her hometown is also Saqqaz.
