Protesters clashed with police outside Iranian embassy Londonwith a new police clash in Paris following the death of an Iranian woman in police custody after she was arrested for violating the hijab laws.
Video footage from outside the capital’s embassy shows a large group of people gathering, with police officers lining up to prevent the group from getting closer to the building.
People could be seen standing on walls, with flags and signs on the street. And two police officers detained a man while others tried to hold back the crowd.
It follows protests around the world following the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. The 22-year-old was detained by Iran’s vice squad for hijab laws.
Protests broke out again in Paris today, with riot police confronting protesting crowds in the city who expressed solidarity with Amini.
Video footage from outside the embassy shows a large group of people gathered, with police officers lining up to stop the group
Mahsa Amini, 22, died in police custody after being detained by Iran’s vice squad for hijab laws
Protester Hadis Najafi, 20, died after being shot six times by security forces in Iran
And a female protester in Iran died after being shot six times by security forces in the country.
Hadis Najafi, 20, was killed after protests in Iran, where violent unrest has spread to at least 46 towns and villages in Iran, the Sun reported.
Iran’s foreign ministry said it had summoned the British ambassador because of what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by the London-based Farsi media.
The state-run IRNA news agency reported that the ministry had also summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Iran over comments made by the speaker of the Norwegian parliament, Masud Gharahkhani.
State television has suggested that at least 41 protesters and police have been killed since the protests began on September 17. More than 1,200 protesters are also believed to have been arrested.
The Foreign Office website said it summoned Simon Shercliff, the ambassador to Iran, on Saturday for hosting critical Farsi-language media in the UK.
The ministry claims that the news outlets have caused unrest and the spread of riots in Iran that are at the top of their schedule.
Iran said it views the news agencies’ reporting as meddling in Iran’s internal affairs and acting in violation of its sovereignty.
Ongoing clashes between protesters and security forces have continued to break out.
A member of the Basij, a volunteer force of the Iranian Guard, was killed by protesters in Tehran last night, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Sunday.
Another Basij member, who had been in a coma since Thursday after street fighting, died on Sunday in Urmia, West Azerbaijan province, IRNA reported.
The crisis in Iran started as a public outburst of anger over the death of Amini, who was arrested by the vice squad in Tehran for allegedly wearing her Islamic headscarf too loosely.
Police said she died of a heart attack and was not assaulted, but her family has questioned that.
Ms Amini’s death has led to strong condemnations from Western countries and the United Nations.
Pro-government demonstrations were also held in several cities in Iran on Sunday. Thousands attended a demonstration in Enghelab, or Revolution Square, waving Iranian flags.
The head of the country’s judiciary did not swear leniency on Sunday against the wave of unrest that has rocked the country since Amini’s death.
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning came after nine nights of protests and street fighting, reiterating previous comments by Iran’s ultra-conservative president Ebrahim Raisi.
The judiciary “emphasized the need for decisive action without leniency” against the main instigators of the “riots,” according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website.
Hundreds of protesters, reformist activists and journalists have been arrested amid mostly nighttime demonstrations that have spread across dozens of cities since the first riots broke out after Amini’s death.
Security forces have fired grenades and birdshots, denounce human rights groups, while protesters have hurled stones, set fire to police cars, set fire to state buildings and shouted ‘death to the dictator’.
The largest protests in Iran in nearly three years have been led by women, sparked by anger at the Islamic republic’s strictly enforced gender-based dress code.
Amini, whose Kurdish first name was Jhina, was arrested on September 13 for allegedly violating rules that require a close-fitting hijab head covering, which include ripped jeans and brightly colored clothing.
Some Iranian female protesters have since removed and burned their hijabs during the rallies and cut their hair, some dancing at huge bonfires to the applause of crowds chanting “zan, zendgi, azadi” or “woman, life, freedom.”