Mahsa Amini was arrested on Tuesday by the morality police. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the law requires all women to wear a veil covering the head and neck while concealing the hair.
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Iranian security forces dispersed, on Saturday September 17, with tear gas a demonstration in the north-west of the country after the death of a young woman arrested in Tehran (Iran) by the police of the mœurs, local media reported. Mahsa Amini, 22, was arrested on Tuesday by the police unit responsible for enforcing the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for women, including the compulsory wearing of headscarves in public. State television announced Friday his death after three days in a coma.
The mullahs’ bloodthirsty regime killed a 22-year-old young woman, #Mahsa_Aminibecause her hair was not completely covered by her scarf.
Women in her hometown of Saghez took off their compulsory headscarves in protest
pic.twitter.com/ActEYqNTci— Masih Alinejad ️ (@AlinejadMasih) September 17, 2022
The young woman was buried on Saturday in her hometown of Saghez, in the province of Kurdistan, according to the Fars news agency. After his funeral, people “sent slogans demanding detailed investigations into this case”, according to the same source. The “protesters then gathered outside the governor’s office” chanting “other slogans” before being “dispersed by security forces who fired tear gas”.
State television broadcast on Friday excerpts from a video showing a room, obviously at the police station, where you can see many women. One of them, introduced as Mahsa Amini, gets up to chat with a “instructor” about her attire, then she collapses. In another excerpt, the emergency service transports the woman’s body to an ambulance. Tehran police confirmed the death on Friday, saying “that there had been no physical contact” between the police officers and the young woman.
The Iranian presidency had clarified for its part that President Ebrahim Raisi had instructed the Minister of the Interior to investigate this affair. The head of Tehran’s medical examiner’s office told state television on Saturday that investigations into the cause of the young woman’s death were ongoing but would take three weeks. Mahsa Amini’s death comes as controversy swells over the conduct of vice police who patrol public places to check compliance with the headscarf law and other Islamic rules.