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Police in Iran detain participants in recent riots in Orumiyeh
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- 29 September, 2022
- 12:30
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The Iranian police have announced the arrest of a number of protesters in the north-west of Iran, Report informs referring to IRNA.
Colonel Hassan Sheikhnejad, the head of the police in Orumiyeh city (West Azarbaijan province), said that they had been handed over to the justice authorities for trial.
“After the recent riots in some quarters and districts of the city, police officers have made it their main task to identify the causes of these incidents,” IRNA quoted him as saying.
Since September 19, protests have been held in several cities of Iran against the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 in Tehran by morality police.
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