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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

DARK SECRETS: Women join protests in iran s conservative southeast dad0f7bc a38f 49fc 838e ba4f228b375a | Vintage Vibes

Women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. (AFP file photo)

Black-clad women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, in what a rights group called a "rare" move in the staunchly conservative region. 

Online videos showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital Zahedan holding banners that declared "Woman, life, freedom" -- one of the main slogans of the protest movement that erupted in mid-September.  

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