Following the movement’s largest protests yet on Thursday, new demonstrations took place late Friday, according to images verified by AFP and other videos published on social media. It posted images it said were of corpses of people shot dead in the protests piled on the floor of Alghadir hospital in eastern Tehran. On Thursday and Friday, an AFP journalist in Tehran saw streets deserted and plunged into darkness ahead of any protests. An AFP reporter saw shop windows broken, as well as security forces deploying. State TV on Saturday broadcast images of funerals for several members of the security forces killed in the protests, including a large gathering in the southern city of Shiraz.
