More than 4,000 killed amid crackdown on demonstrators in Iran
A US-based human rights activist news agency reports the toll of total lives lost to be 4,029 amid the demonstrations in Iran. Among the dead were 3,786 demonstrators, 180 security forces, 28 children, and 35 people not demonstrating.
It further said that a total of 26,000 people have been detained in the crackdown as well.
The agency fears many more have been killed, as reported by AP.
Comments from officials have led to fears of some of those detained being put to death in Iran, one of the world’s top executioners.
“While the killers and seditious terrorists will be punished, Islamic mercy and leniency will be applied to those who were deceived and did not have (effective) roles in the terrorist event,” a statement Monday from Iran’s president, its judiciary chief and parliament speaker said.