Mahsa Amini: Protesters in Iran take to the streets once more despite repression
Angry demonstrators took to streets across Iran again Saturday despite more than a hundred casualties and continued harsh pushback, including internet access restrictions, as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody entered the fifth week.
The 22-year-old died on 16 September, three days after falling into a coma following her arrest in Tehran by Iran's morality police for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
Young women have been at the forefront of the biggest wave of street protests seen in the country for years.
"Guns, tanks, fireworks; the clergy must get lost," women without hijabs chanted at a gathering at Tehran's Shariati Technical and Vocational College in a video widely shared online.
Scores of jeering and whistling protesters hurled projectiles at security forces near a landmark roundabout in Hamedan city, west of Tehran, in footage verified by AFP.
Despite what online monitor NetBlocks called a "major disruption to internet traffic", protesters were also seen pouring onto the streets of the northwestern city of Ardabil in videos shared on Twitter.
Shopkeepers went on strike in Amini's hometown Saqez -- in the Iranian province of Kurdistan -- and Mahabad in West Azerbaijan, said the @1500tasvir social media channel that monitors protests and police violations.
They were responding to an appeal for a huge turnout for protests on Saturday under the catchcry "The beginning of the end!"
"We have to be present in the squares, because the best VPN these days is the street," activists declared, referring to virtual private networks used to skirt internet restrictions.
In response to the protests, one of Iran's main revolutionary bodies, the Islamic Development
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