As of Monday, Iran Human Rights reported that 76 protestors have died across 14 provinces, including six women and four children. However, the organization issued a warning that internet censorship was delaying the reporting of the deaths.
According to reports, 35 of the fatalities occurred in the provinces of Mazandaran and Gilan, located north of Tehran, and 24 occurred in the Kurdish-populated provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, and Ilam, located farther to the northwest.
The government was charged with employing excessive force and live bullets to quell the dissent, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR), a Norwegian organization. IHR claimed that evidence it had gathered from recordings and death certificates showed that security personnel was firing live ammunition directly at protestors, despite Iranian officials' denials.
Since Mahsa Amini's burial on Sept. 17, protests against the Iranian government have extended to more than 80 cities and towns across the country.
On Sept. 13, morality police officials detained a 22-year-old Kurdish lady from the northwestern city of Saqez when she was in Tehran. She was allegedly in violation of the harsh law mandating women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.
After being brought to a correctional facility to be "educated," she collapsed and spent three days in a coma before passing away in the hospital. Police claimed that Ms. Amini's abrupt heart failure caused her to pass away, but her family disputes this and claims that she was actually beaten by police.
Following her death, protests against the hijab law and morality police erupted, and they soon became Iran's Shia Muslim religious establishment's most significant threat in years. On Monday, reports of demonstrations were made in Tehran and a number of other towns, including Yazd, which is located in the middle of the nation, and Tabriz and Sanandaj, which are both located in the northwest. More than 20 universities observed strikes by students and faculty members who walked out of their classes.
More than 1,200 people have also been detained, according to Iranian authorities. The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, was detained by security personnel on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media. Ms. Hashemi is a vocal opponent of the Iranian rulers.
Women have been seen in social media videos cutting their hair in public and burning their headscarves on bonfires while being applauded and chanted phrases such as "Women, life, freedom" and "Death to the dictator"-a reference to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
