This province saw some of the highest casualty rates, particularly following "Bloody Friday" in Zahedan.
This blog post examines the harrowing reports of sexual violence and the rising death toll during the 2022 Iranian protests, specifically focusing on a widely documented assault by security forces and the human rights crisis that followed.
This was not an isolated incident. Human rights organizations, including , documented numerous accounts of "gender-based and sexual violence" used to intimidate and punish those demanding "Woman, Life, Freedom." Survivors reported that such acts were often used during arrests or in detention centers to break the will of activists. The Human Cost: Surpassing 200 Deaths