Nine year old was shot
Relative of protest victims kills Iranian police officer
6/12/2023 5:17 am
Scores of people are still dying in Iran during protests as a result of violence by security officials. A relative of a boy who was killed apparently drove into a police officer at a memorial service for him. Shortly thereafter, he too is shot.
In Iran, a police officer was killed on Sunday by a relative of a boy who his family said was killed by security forces during nationwide protests last year. Local media reported that the attacker rammed the police officer with a car. The incident happened on the sidelines of a memorial service for the boy Kian Pirfalak in the city of Iseh in the south-west of the country. According to a police representative, the attacker was shot dead after the incident.
Pirfalak was one of seven people shot dead during demonstrations in November. The protests were triggered by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini after being held in police custody. She was arrested by the vice squad in September for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly.
“A police officer was killed after an opposition call to increase insecurity on Kian Pirfalak’s birthday,” Tasnim news agency quoted the region’s deputy police chief Hojjat Sefidpoust as saying. Accordingly, the man who attacked the police officer with his car was a cousin of Pirfalak’s mother. According to Sefidpoust, the attacker succumbed to his injuries “thanks to the intervention of personnel” on site.
State media blamed “terrorists” for the boy’s death in November, and his mother blamed the security forces. The Iranian judiciary announced on April 7 that a man who killed Pirfalak and six other people had been sentenced to death.
Hundreds of people were killed in the protests after Amini’s death, including dozens of security forces. Thousands of people were arrested as a result of what the authorities dubbed “riots”.