Protest in Iran: Security forces alert to Kurdish city crackdown

Amnesty International said there were reports that security forces had used firearms indiscriminately in Sanad.

The Kurdish Hengaw group posted a video showing police shooting at houses in the city and another in which shootings and crying were heard, reports the BBC, broadcast Express.

He reported that at least five civilians were killed and 400 injured throughout the region since Sunday.

But he warned that the death toll could be higher because authorities are cutting off the internet and local mobile networks.

Protests against the clerical institution have included Iran since the death three weeks ago of Mahsa Ammi, a Kurdish woman from the western town of Szakez who fell into a coma after being arrested by moral police in Tehran for allegedly violating the strict hygiene law.