Iranian justice has handed down three more death sentences to protesters in Iran, bringing the total to five since the start of the protest movement over the death of young Mahsa Amini in police custody in September, AFP reports.

The Islamic Republic has been rocked by a wave of protests since the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was arrested for violating a strict dress code that requires women to wear the Islamic headscarf in public.

Authorities describe the “riots” as being instrumentalized by foreign powers, and at least 1,500 people have been arrested, according to NGOs.

Three more people were sentenced to death on Wednesday for their participation in the protests, the Mizan Online Judiciary Authority reported, bringing the total number of death sentences to five as of Sunday.

Of the three convicts, one drove into the policemen, killing one of them, the second wounded the security guard with a cold weapon, and the third tried to block traffic and “sow terror,” the indictment says.

Despite the repression, the mobilization on the streets does not weaken.

Security forces shot people in the subway

“We will fight! We will die! We will take back Iran!” dozens of demonstrators chanted around a bonfire in Tehran, according to a video broadcast by online media outlet 1500tasvir on Wednesday.

In another widely circulated video confirmed by AFP, security forces shot from a subway platform at people on the opposite platform, causing screams and some people in the crowd to fall to the ground.

In Iranian Kurdistan (in the northwest), where Mahsa Amini is from, “government forces opened fire” on protesters in several towns and three of them were killed, two in Sanand and one in Kamyaran, he told AFP on Tuesday, a human rights NGO organizations from Oslo. Hengav

The call for a three-day mobilization from Tuesday to Thursday comes in the wake of bloody protests in November 2019, when protests sparked by rising fuel prices led to deadly violence in many cities across the country.

According to 1500tasvir, the families of the 2019 victims “were forced to cancel the ceremonies after threats or pressure from the Islamic Republic.”

However, the authorities appear to be trying to control the protest movement, during which women remove veils or even burn them, defying security forces in the streets.

The official Irna agency said that two security guards and a paramilitary were killed on Tuesday during demonstrations in the Kurdish cities of Bukan and Kamyaran (northwest), as well as in Shiraz (south).

At least 342 protesters have been killed in a crackdown on the movement, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR).