Women in conservative region of Iran join Mahsa Amini protests

Dozens of women turn out on streets of provincial capital, where men have been protesting for months

Black-clad women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province have joined nationwide protests on Friday sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, in what a rights group called a rare move in the staunchly conservative region.

Videos online showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital, Zahedan, holding banners that declared Woman, life, freedom" - one of the main slogans of the protest movement that erupted in mid-September.