Daily News – US-based Iranian human rights group HRANA estimated Saturday that at least 78 protesters have been killed in the past 14 days in connection with ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Iran.
HRANA said in a news release that at least 116 have died in the protests in total, including 38 security personnel.
At least seven of the protesters killed were under 18, HRANA said. The group also reported that at least 2,638 people had been arrested.
“Based on aggregated data up to the end of the fourteenth day, 574 protest locations have been identified in 185 cities across all 31 provinces of the country,” the group said. The number of locations is cumulative, beginning when the protests started on December 28.
CNN is unable to independently verify HRANA’s casualty numbers, arrest figures or its tally of locations where protests have occurred.
“Examination of the causes of death shows that most victims were killed by live ammunition or pellet gunfire, predominantly from close range,” the HRANA news release said.