At least 100 Iranians, including five women, are charged with capital offences in connection with protests in Iran, Norway-based Iran Human Rights says, as two Iranian chess champions defy hijab laws during a chess tournament in Kazakhstan.
The protests have since transformed into calls for the overthrow of Iran's ruling clerics, presenting one of the most durable challenges to the theocracy since the chaotic years following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
IHR reported the deaths of 476 protesters killed by security forces in the past two months, including 64 children and 34 women.
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