A number of citizens of western Herat province Thursday protested against the execution of Afghans in neighbouring Iran, warning their protests will escalate if the Afghan government does not act soon.
The protestors blocked the Herat-Islam Qala road which connects the two countries for a couple of hours and warned they will continue to protest until the bodies of the executed are transported back to Afghanistan.
According to protestors from the Kohsan district, a number of people from their district had travelled to Iran for work but were arrested by Iranian border forces on the way, and were later transferred to another city and shot to death by a firing squad.
"It's been two months now that we have been to the provincial government, the provincial council, the international affairs office, but no one, no single organisation hears us," one of the protestors told TOLOnews.
"We will carry out violence if this refusal continues," he added.
Another protestor called upon President Hamid Karzai to address the matter.
"We want the government and the president to give us a positive response as soon as possible and to resolve our problem, otherwise there will be bad consequences," he said.
Herat governor spokesman said that the authorities are looking at the matter with documents proving the protestors' claims already sent to the foreign ministry.
"This is an issue of the national scale. The top officials should discuss this over it in the capital and make a decision," Mohiuddin Noori told TOLOnews.
"We have sent to the foreign ministry whatever we have that can prove the claims," he said.
Despite numerous attempts, consulate officials at the Iranian consulate in Herat have not responded to TOLOnews' calls to comment on the issue.