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Ongoing anti-government protests in Iran, sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September, have intensified this week, fuelled by the death of a 9 year old boy, Kian Pirfalak.
Young people, including many teens, are at the centre of women-led demonstrations across the country which are being met with increasingly violent suppression by security forces. The BBC reports at least 348 protesters have been killed and 15,900 arrested during the unrest.
So what is driving protesters to risk their lives and why are they not backing down?
We ask Paris-based journalist Deepa Parent. She gets up in the middle of the night to talk to the protestors because foreign journalists are barred and authorities have disrupted internet and phone services
Deepa Parent was sent this image by a relative of a 16 year old boy killed on September 30 in Zahedan. His relative found the blood soaked notes when he collected the body from the hospital Photo: supplied
