GLOBAL CONCERN RISES; MORE THAN 10,700 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DETAINED Iran protests turn deadly, toll mounts

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- ARSALAN SHAHLA

IRANIAN PROTESTS APPEARED to persist in localized pockets overnight as an activist group warned of imminent executions by the state and said the civilian death toll from the unrest could be in the thousands.

The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights group said at least 648 people had died in the protests by Monday, while estimating the toll could be as high as 6,000. The group warned the “risk of mass and extrajudicial executions of protesters is extremely serious.”

In one video that’s been verified by the BBC as coming from a mortuary on the outskirts of Tehran, at least 180 bodies can be seen. The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that more than 10,700 people had been detained in connection with protests by Monday, and put the death toll at 646.