FILE PHOTO: People protesting the death of Mahsa Amini. KL./ 19/9/22

DUBAI, Oct 31 (Reuters) – About 1,000 people have been indicted in Tehran over rioting and the trials will be held in public this week, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted the head of the judiciary in the Iranian capital as saying on Monday.

Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police last month, posing one of the boldest challenges to the clerical leadership since the 1979 revolution.

(Reporting by Dubai Newsroom, Editing by William Maclean)

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