A group of protesters are picketing outside the Iranian embassy in Wellington, condemning the country's brutal crackdown of demonstrations against the regime.

The protesters say more than 240 people, including 32 children, have been killed in Iran in the past six weeks since unrest erupted after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who was detained by the Islamic Republic's morality police for flouting restrictions on women's dress. 

RNZ political reporter Anneke Smith spoke to Charlotte Cook from the protest.