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05-08-2015, 05:35 PM
Kurds in Mahabad angered following allegation that 23-year-old woman jumped to her death due to sexual assault.
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Hundreds, and possibly thousands of Kurds protested in front of a hotel and burned it in the Iranian city of Mahabad on Thursday, following the suicide of a female employee of the hotel who was believed to have jumped to her death in order to escape the rape attempts of an Iranian intelligence officer, according to a report in ARA News, an independent Syrian news agency.
Mahabad is a predominantly Kurdish town in the northwest corner of Iran.
“She threw herself from the hotel’s balcony on the fourth floor, for fear of being captured by the Iranian officer,” sources were quoted by ARA as saying.
According to the report, security forces fired live bullets at the protesters and blocked off roads in the city leading to the protest site.
Kurdish activist Ibrahim Asaad told ARA that the Iranian regime’s practices against the Kurds “reached unbearable levels.”
“The Kurdish people in Iran have be subject to persecution and suppression by the authorities. This incident, although it seems individual, reflects the degree of brutality of security officers in Mahabad,” he said.
“This protest has been motivated by sympathy with the victim and dozens other victims who were exposed to such acts by the Iranian authorities. The Kurdish residents of Mahabad won’t stop protesting until making sure that the perpetrators are prosecuted,” Asaad told the news outlet.
The report noted that over the past few months, the Iranian authorities have executed several Kurdish activists.
http://www.islahhaber.net/resimler/m/iran-daki-kurt-sehri-karisti.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pMi-mVMEdE
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http://www.jpost.com/HttpHandlers/ShowImage.ashx?id=285700&h=530&w=758
Hundreds, and possibly thousands of Kurds protested in front of a hotel and burned it in the Iranian city of Mahabad on Thursday, following the suicide of a female employee of the hotel who was believed to have jumped to her death in order to escape the rape attempts of an Iranian intelligence officer, according to a report in ARA News, an independent Syrian news agency.
Mahabad is a predominantly Kurdish town in the northwest corner of Iran.
“She threw herself from the hotel’s balcony on the fourth floor, for fear of being captured by the Iranian officer,” sources were quoted by ARA as saying.
According to the report, security forces fired live bullets at the protesters and blocked off roads in the city leading to the protest site.
Kurdish activist Ibrahim Asaad told ARA that the Iranian regime’s practices against the Kurds “reached unbearable levels.”
“The Kurdish people in Iran have be subject to persecution and suppression by the authorities. This incident, although it seems individual, reflects the degree of brutality of security officers in Mahabad,” he said.
“This protest has been motivated by sympathy with the victim and dozens other victims who were exposed to such acts by the Iranian authorities. The Kurdish residents of Mahabad won’t stop protesting until making sure that the perpetrators are prosecuted,” Asaad told the news outlet.
The report noted that over the past few months, the Iranian authorities have executed several Kurdish activists.
http://www.islahhaber.net/resimler/m/iran-daki-kurt-sehri-karisti.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pMi-mVMEdE
http://www.kurdpa.net/weney-babet//26426.jpg
http://www.kurdpa.net/weney-babet//26428.jpg
http://www.kurdpa.net/weney-babet//26429.jpg
http://www.kurdpa.net/weney-babet//26430.jpg