At least 476 people including 64 children and 34 women have been killed by security forces in the current nationwide protests, according to a rights group on Wednesday. The death toll increase relates to recently verified cases from the first two months of the protests, the rights group said. They were all under 18 years of age, but have not all been verified through document evidence, the rights group said.
According to the Iran rights group, at least 100 protesters are currently at risk of execution, death penalty charges, or sentences. This is a minimum as most families are under pressure to stay quiet, the real number is believed to be much higher, the group said.
In a statement, Iran Human Rights said the toll included 34 women and 64 minors under 18 years of age.
The highest toll was reported in Sistan and Baluchistan province with 130 deaths, 55 in West Azerbaijan province and 52 in Tehran.
Iran has seen sweeping protests in recent months sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police in mid-September.
Iranian authorities say at least 200 people have been killed in the protests.
Tensions have spiraled between Iran and the West since the outbreak of the protests, with Western countries imposing rafts of human rights-related sanctions on Tehran over “repression and crackdown against anti-government protesters”.
Tehran, for its part, has accused these countries of “stoking unrest” in the country in recent months through support to what it calls “riots”.
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