Mahabad protestor Akam Telac loses his life

2015-06-30 11:56:10

NEWS DESK (DİHA) - One of the protesters seriously wounded in the Mahabad clashes two months ago died Monday in Werme’s Imam Khomeini Hospital, a source inside the hospital said.

According to the source, Akam Talac, was treated at Imam Khomeini Hospital for 53 days and reportedly suffered from serious internal bleeding. Talac was a student at Mahabad University. He was seriously wounded by regime forces clashing with demonstrators after angry protestors torched a hotel in downtown Mahabad in May.

He was injured by Iranian regime forces with a Winchester rifle at close distance, hitting him in his neck and chest. Tensions were running high in the ethnically Kurdish Mahabad city of Iran’s Kurdistan region, where protesters set fire to the hotel over the death of a 25-year-old Kurdish woman named Ferinaz Xosrawanî.

Ferinaz Xosrawanî was working in the Tara Hotel in the city of Mahabad, in Eastern Kurdistan (Iran), when an Iranian intelligence officer attempted to rape her. Ferinaz fled out the balcony, falling to her death in an attempt to escape. In the wake of her death, the city erupted in protest. Protestors burned the Tara Hotel in the protests, which lasted for several days starting May 8.

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