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Topshots of the Week (01-07 October, 2022)
Selection of some of the most striking photographs taken by AFP photojournalists this past week (01-07 October, 2022).
A protester wearing face-paint depicting France's iconic "Marianne" leading an uprising, attends a demonstration in support of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini during a protest on October 2, 2022 on Place de la Republique in Paris, following her death in Iran. Amini, 22, died in custody on September 16, 2022, three days after her arrest by the notorious morality police in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
© Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP
Members of the "Jove de Tarragona" team attempt to form a "castell" (human tower) during the 28th edition of the 'castells' competetion at the Tarraco arena in Tarragona on October 2, 2022. These human towers, built traditionally in festivals within Catalonia, gather several teams that attempt to build and dismantle a human tower structure.
© Josep LAGO / AFP
Indonesian army soldiers and civilians pay their respects for victims of the stampede at Kanjuruhan stadium in Malang, East Java on October 4, 2022. Elite Indonesian police officers were under investigation on October 4 over a stadium stampede that killed 125 people including dozens of children in one of the deadliest disasters in football history.
© Juni KRISWANTO / AFP
A protestors cuts her hair during a demonstration against the Iranian regime and in support of Iranian women, after young Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's morality police, in Istanbul on October 2, 2022. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Turkey on October 2 to condemn Iran's crackdown on women-led demonstrations, in which least 92 people have been killed, sparked by a young woman's death after her arrest by the country's notorious morality police. Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, was pronounced dead on September 16 after she was detained for allegedly breaching rules requiring women to wear hijab headscarves and modest clothes, sparking Iran's biggest wave of popular unrest in almost three years.
© Bulent KILIC / AFP
A police officer walks past destroyed Russian armoured vehicles were gathered at a collection point in an animal feed plant in the recently retaken town of Lyman in Donetsk region, on October 5, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
© Yasuyochi CHIBA / AFP
A man walks over a broken section of the Pine Island Road in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian in Matlacha, Florida on October 1, 2022. Shocked Florida communities counted their dead October 1, 2022, as the full scale of the devastation came into focus, two days after Hurricane Ian tore into the coastline as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States.
© Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sit in a makeshift boat that was being used to clandestinely make its way towards the Italian coast, as they are found by Tunisian authorities about 50 nautical miles in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Tunisia's central city of Sfax on October 4, 2022.
© Fethi BELAID / AFP
A model presents a creation for Valentino during the Spring-Summer 2023 fashion show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week, in Paris, on October 2, 2022.
© Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP