Iranian authorities shot and killed a person for celebrating the nation's elimination from the 2022 World Cup, human rights activists say.
Mehran Samak, 27, was one among many individuals celebrating Iran's loss to the US, reportedly honking the horn of his automobile in Bandar Anzali on Tuesday night time, earlier than he was shot within the head.
For a lot of, the nationwide soccer crew symbolises the Iranian regime.
"He was shot within the head by state forces when he went out to have fun the Islamic Republic's loss," Iran Human Rights (IHR) stated on Twitter.
"The Islamic Republic's Forensic Medical Organisation is refusing to return [his] physique to his household regardless of a crowd of individuals gathering exterior the constructing to help them."
A whole lot of 1000's of anti-government protesters have flooded the streets throughout Iran in latest months, sparked by the dying of 22-year-old girl Mahsa Amini within the custody of Iran's morality police in September.
Iran's safety forces have killed at the least 448 folks within the crackdown on the protests, together with 60 kids underneath the age of 18 and 29 girls, in accordance with IHR.
The unprecedented nationwide rebellion has taken maintain of greater than 150 cities and 140 universities in all 31 provinces of Iran, in accordance with United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights Chief Volker Turk.
Greater than 14,000 folks, together with kids, have been arrested in reference to the protests, with at the least 21 presently going through the dying penalty.
Six have already obtained dying sentences.