More than 50 protesters killed in Iran demonstrations

Says a rights group

50 MIN(s) ago

UPDATED 50 MIN(s) ago

By AFP, Paris

Anti-Iranian regime protesters wave Iranian flags before the 1979 revolution with the Lion and Sun emblems during a gathering outside the Iranian Embassy, central London, on January 9, 2026. Photo: AFP

More than 50 protesters have been killed in nearly two weeks of demonstrations in Iran sparked by anger over the rising cost of living, a rights group said Friday.

"At least 51 protesters, including nine children under the age of 18, have been killed and hundreds more injured in the first thirteen days of the new round of nationwide protests in Iran," said the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, raising a previous toll of 45 issued the day earlier.