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According to IranWire, Iranian security authorities detained a Kurdish bodybuilder who showed support for the recent statewide rallies.
On January 4, armed troops attacked Aso Yari's home in Javanrud, a mostly Kurdish city, and took him to an unknown place.
Yari is a bodybuilding champion from Javanrud in Kermanshah's western region. He has declined to join the national bodybuilding squad for a tournament in Spain in order to protest the bloodbath that has engulfed Iran for more than three months.
An increasing number of sportsmen and other prominent personalities have shown support for the anti-clerical authorities protest movement in Iran. The Islamic Republic has accused these celebrities of "fanning the fires of the riots," and a number of them have been imprisoned.
According to human rights groups, security forces have murdered over 500 people, including dozens of children, and imprisoned over 18,000 people in their crackdown on rallies. At least 100 demonstrators are presently at risk of "execution, death penalty charges or sentencing," according to one rights group.
The protests and governmental crackdown have been particularly violent in the country's western Kurdish districts, as well as in Sistan and Baluchistan, an impoverished southeastern province home to Iran's Baluch minority, which numbers up to 2 million people.
On January 4, armed troops attacked Aso Yari's home in Javanrud, a mostly Kurdish city, and took him to an unknown place.
Yari is a bodybuilding champion from Javanrud in Kermanshah's western region. He has declined to join the national bodybuilding squad for a tournament in Spain in order to protest the bloodbath that has engulfed Iran for more than three months.
An increasing number of sportsmen and other prominent personalities have shown support for the anti-clerical authorities protest movement in Iran. The Islamic Republic has accused these celebrities of "fanning the fires of the riots," and a number of them have been imprisoned.
According to human rights groups, security forces have murdered over 500 people, including dozens of children, and imprisoned over 18,000 people in their crackdown on rallies. At least 100 demonstrators are presently at risk of "execution, death penalty charges or sentencing," according to one rights group.
The protests and governmental crackdown have been particularly violent in the country's western Kurdish districts, as well as in Sistan and Baluchistan, an impoverished southeastern province home to Iran's Baluch minority, which numbers up to 2 million people.
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