10 Year Old Girl Shot During Mass Protests In Iran After Woman Is Beaten To Death By Police For Not Wearing Hijab Properly

ERBIL — Iranian security forces on Monday severely wounded a 10-year-old Kurdish girl after shooting her in the head in Bukan city, where protests are ongoing over the suspicious death of Zhina Amini, a human rights group said.

The demonstrations began in the wake of the suspicious death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the Iranian Kurdish city of Saqiz, who died on Friday after falling into a coma for a concussion.

According to Hengaw Organization for Human Rights and family statements, Amini was arrested last Tuesday in Tehran and taken into custody for a Hijab violation where she was physically tortured.

Since her death, demonstrations have been ongoing across the Iranian Kurdish cities in Kurdistan as well as West Azarbaijan provinces, in response to which Iranian security forces reportedly used live ammunition, tear gas, and water cannons to disperse them.

Hengaw said a ten-year-old Kurdish girl is now in a critical condition after she was shot in the head by the Iranian security forces on Monday afternoon.

The human rights group noted in a separate Facebook post that at least two Kurdish protesters, identified as Fuad Qadimi and Mohsin Mohamedi, were killed "by direct fire" of the Iranian forces on Monday and over 15 others were injured.