Breaking news Video:Kurds burn hotel in Iran, after Iranian intelligence officer tried to rape Kurdish woman leading to suicide Kurds in Mahabad angered following allegation that 23-year-old woman jumped to her death due to sexual assault Thousands of Kurds protested in front of a hotel and burned it in the Iranian city of Mahabad on Thursday, following the suicide of a female employee of the hotel who was jumped to her death in order to escape the rape attempts of an Iranian intelligence.

Breaking news Video:Kurds burn hotel in Iran, after Iranian intelligence officer tried to rape Kurdish woman leading to suicide
Kurds in Mahabad angered following allegation that 23-year-old woman jumped to her death due to sexual assault 
Thousands of Kurds protested in front of a hotel and burned it in the Iranian city of Mahabad on Thursday, following the suicide of a female employee of the hotel who was jumped to her death in order to escape the rape attempts of an Iranian intelligence.
Mahabad is a predominantly Kurdish town in the north west corner of Iran.
She threw herself from the hotel’s balcony on the fourth floor, for fear of being captured by the Iranian officer.
security forces fired live bullets at the protesters and blocked off roads in the city leading to the protest site.
The Kurdish people in Iran have be subject to persecution and suppression by the authorities. This incident, although it seems individual, reflects the degree of brutality of security officers in Mahabad,” he said.
The Kurdish residents of Mahabad won’t stop protesting until making sure that the perpetrators are prosecuted
over the past few months, the Iranian authorities have executed several Kurdish activists