Bloody Friday of Khash · Jom'e-ye Khunin-e Khash

Culture of origin: Baloch · Historical

Holiday sources: Baloch · Iran

On 4 November 2022, after Friday prayers in Khash, a Baloch town in Sistan and Baluchestan, people marched against the Islamic Republic, angered by the Zahedan massacre five weeks earlier and the reported rape of a 15-year-old Baloch girl by a police commander in Chabahar. Security forces shot at protesters, bystanders and worshippers with live ammunition. Amnesty International counted at least 18 killed, two children among them, and dozens wounded.