TEHRAN: An activist group called for fresh protests across Iran on Wednesday in a bid to overthrow the regime as demonstrations enter their fourth week, according to report by Iran International.

The group, known as ‘Tehran Youth’, called for large protests in all the main roads and squares starting Wednesday afternoon in response to the regime’s fierce crackdown and violence against demonstrators in Sanandaj.

Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said Wednesday that at least 108 people have been killed, including minors, since nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini began weeks ago.

The Iranian security forces also killed at least another 93 people during separate clashes in the city of Zahedan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan, IHR said in a statement.

The violence in Zahedan erupted on September 30 during protests that were triggered by anger over the reported rape of a teenage girl by a police commander in the region.

Human rights groups also voiced alarm on Tuesday over the extent of the crackdown in Sanandaj, the capital of Amini’s home province of Kurdistan.

“The international community must prevent further killings in Kurdistan by issuing an immediate response,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said in Wednesday’s statement.

“The city of Sanandaj in Kurdistan province has witnessed widespread protests and bloody crackdowns in the past three days,” IHR said, adding that its current death toll for the province excluded those killed in that period.

The Olso-based group said it had so far recorded 28 deaths in Mazandaran province, 14 in Kurdistan, 12 in both Gilan and West Azerbaijan, and 11 in Tehran province.

It said the Iranian security forces had also arrested many children protesting on the streets and at schools in the past week.

IHR said its toll also excluded six deaths that reportedly occurred during protests inside Rasht central prison in northern Iran on Sunday as it was still investigating the case.