Protest against Iran at Churchill Square in Brighton

Hundreds of people are expected at the demonstration outside Churchill Square in Brighton at 1pm on Saturday.

Widespread protests broke out across Iran and the world following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was detained by the country’s morality police.

Videos also emerged of women throwing down their mandatory headscarfs, or hijabs, in protest against Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei who has been in office since 1989.

Ali Forouzandeh, an Iranian who has lived in Brighton for 25 years, said the government is “evil” and people do not want to be under its rule.

Protesters outside the Jubilee Clock Tower in Brighton last week (Image: Newsquest)

The 52-year-old said: “We have had protests at the Jubilee Clock Tower and Churchill Square in the last two weeks. I saw with my own eyes people walking past and crying.

“The Iranian government is an absolute dictatorship, they are shooting people in the street without warning.

“It’s unbelievable, there are lots of young people who do not want to be under this government any more.

“The government are superstitious and they’re horrible in how they talk about religion, the government are evil. Religion should be about love.”

Ali said he has not been able to contact his family for two weeks due to the internet being disrupted in the country.

Activists said the government’s crackdown on protesters has intensified recently.

Protests outside Churchill Square last week (Image: Newsquest)

Ms Amini was Kurdish and her death has been felt particularly in Iran’s Kurdish region, where demonstrations began on September 17 at her funeral, the day after she died.

Amnesty International criticised Iranian security forces for “using firearms and firing tear gas indiscriminately, including into people’s homes”.

Riot police fired into at least one neighbourhood in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as Amnesty International and the White House’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan criticised the violence targeting demonstrators angered by the death of Ms Amini.

Protests outside the Clock Tower (Image: Protests outside the Clock Tower)

Meanwhile, some oil workers on Monday joined the protests at two key refinery complexes, for the first time linking an industry key to Iran’s theocracy to the unrest.

Workers claimed another protest on Tuesday in the crucial oil city of Abadan, with others calling for protests on Wednesday as well.

Iran’s government insists Ms Amini was not mistreated, but her family says her body showed bruises and other signs of beating.

Subsequent videos have shown security forces beating and shoving female protesters, including women who have torn off their headscarves.

A flag hung up on scaffolding in West Street (Image: Newsquest)

From the capital, Tehran, and elsewhere, videos have emerged online, despite authorities disrupting the internet.

Videos on Monday showed university and high school students demonstrating and chanting, with some women and girls marching through the streets without headscarves as the protests continue into a fourth week.

An Oslo-based group, Iran Human Rights, estimates at least 185 people have been killed.

Iran’s judiciary spokesman Masoud Setayeshi reportedly said on Tuesday that Iran so far has released some 1,700 people arrested in the recent demonstrations, without offering a total figure for those detained so far.