The nation-wide popular movement continues with street protests and strikes across Iran and East Kurdistan.

The ongoing protests have so far spread over at least 280 cities, according to the opposition.

A three-day strike was launched on December 19, which marked the 94th day of the revolt known as the "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" (Woman, Life, Freedom) uprising.

Shops were closed in many cities of East Kurdistan, including Kermanshah, Sine, Seqiz, Kamyaran, Diwandara, Aywan, Xerb.

In Mahabad, hundreds of people attended a commemoration event for Fayeq Mamqadiri who was killed 40 days ago.

A mass march was held under the leadership of women in the northern city of Rashti. Young protestors gathered around bonfires in the streets.

In the Gulshari district of Karaj, people once again took to the streets and expressed their demands.

In the meantime, people bid farewell to Mohammad Haji Rasulpour, a former Kurdish political prisoner from Bukan, who passed away in the early hours of December 19, after spending five days in a coma at the Gholi Pur Hospital in Bukan as a result of severe torture by Iranian authorities. Rasulpour had been arrested by the Iranian government forces during the protests in Bukan and gone into a coma due to torture in the central prison of Bukan on Tuesday, 13 December.

“The Iranian authorities severely tortured Mohammad Haji Rasulpour. He died as a result of the severity of his injuries and the conditions of his care,” said the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, according to which ten detained civilians died as a result of torture during the last protests in Kurdistan cities in Iran.

An unprecedented popular movement has been taking place in Iran and East Kurdistan since the murder of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini by the morality police in Tehran on September 16.

According to the Iran Human Rights Organization, state forces have killed at least 469 people, including 63 children, during the protests. It is reported that 39 people face the risk of execution at any time.

Local human rights organizations state that at least 122 people have been killed in East Kurdistan alone.

According to other opposition news sites, 700 people have been killed and 30 thousand people have been arrested since the protests first started.