Press Release
Subject: Iranian Security Forces Open Fire at Demonstrators in City of Kazeroon killing and Wounding Scores
Date of Press Release: 5/17/18
Confirmed reports indicate that a peaceful demonstration in the city of Kazeroon, at the south west of Iran, was turned bloody after the Islamic Republic security forces opened fire at the demonstrators. At least two people were confirmed to have died from gunshot wounds and many more injured.
Coalition for Democracy and Human Right in Iran pleads with all international human rights organizations to condemn opening fire at peaceful demonstrators in Iran, ask for immediate release of arrested protestors and request dispatch of human right observers from the UN and other international agencies to monitor the situation in Iran.