The death of 22-year -old Mahsa Amini in police custody after her arrest for allegedly disdaining the dress code for women in the country.

IRAN: Mahsa Amini, who was also known as Jina/Zhina, visited Iran’s capital Tehram from Saqez to meet her family with her brother Kiarash Amini. When she was arrested by police for not following the dress code of the country. She was beaten to such a degree that led to getting her being hospitalised during the investigation where she slipped into a coma and later died.

The Death and Protest: Reason

Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old girl who visited Iran’s capital Tehram from Saqez with her brother Kiarash to meet her relatives. Where she got arrested by the local police for allegedly disdaining the dress code for women in the country, in effect since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Meanwhile, it was revealed that the police did not particularly give any reason for her arrest, the media reported that it was due to her clothing which was not according to the dress code.

Later, her mother told Iranian media in an interview that her daughter’s “clothes were in line with the rules.” And despite that, she was arrested and taken to a detention centre along with her brother.

Local media reported that her brother was present during the interrogation when he heard noises of her screaming and later an ambulance was called then she was taken to hospital and there she slipped into a coma. Images of the blood coming out of her ears and bruises around her eyes went viral on social media.

Mahsa Amini’s death to protest

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After Mahsa Amini passed away in hospital, Iranian women have been sharing videos of themselves protesting and cutting their hair and burning their hijabs all over media against the Mahsa Amini’s death.

Mahsa Amini’s funeral quickly turned into an anti-regime protest despite the Security force’s plan to bury Jina overnight to stop an extravagant number of people from attending and protesting and blocking the roads of Saqqez to prevent people which ended as a failure because of the extravagant number of people coming.

The funeral took place around 10 a.m. on September 17, 2022, and an extravagant number of people of Saqqez started to gather around the city’s main cemetery entrance, Aichi, to attend the funeral and to start an anti-regime protest against injustice and its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

The protesting women and people while protesting said, “Death to the dictator”, “Shame on Ali Khamenei”, “Death to Khamenei” and “Regime of Execution! Stop your crimes”.

During the funeral, her mother kissed her grave and said, “Rise up, Jina, People have come for you”. On the hand, her father came in an unstable condition with her uncles, brother and grandparents saying, “We vow to pursue her case to the very end.”

Right after the funeral, the people marched to the governor of Saqqez, where they got confronted by police and a special security force where they chanted, “I will kill whoever is responsible for my sister’s death.” Security and police used tear gas and pellets, injuring several protestors and some of whom are critical.

According to Human rights in Hengaw, at least 38 people have been severely injured during the dress code case during detention.

And in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan, protesting people took the streets and chanted anti-regime slogans. They threw stones at Khamenei and Qassem Soleimani and burned them. Further angry protests also started in Tehran and near Kasra hospital.

Media and Police on the case  

Iran’s security forces, meanwhile, have issued a statement saying, “Amini suddenly collapsed during her interrogation and “educational training” on Hijab rules. On this Amini, the family said, “She was in perfectly healthy condition before the detention.”

Iran’s security forces have also released a video, which is said to have been edited, where a woman in long clothing was interrogated and that she suddenly held her head and collapsed and then the footage suddenly shows the medical staff entering the room and taking her.

The Amini family had yet to release any information regarding the video and if that woman is Jina or not.

On social media, many women shared videos of them burning their hijabs and cutting their hair and chanting anti-regime slogans.

Persian-language media, including Iran Wire and Shagarh Newspaper, said according to her family Jina was perfectly healthy before detention and she was rushed to hospital in a coma a few hours later. It is still not clear what happened during the interrogation.

Tasvir channel showed that she had suffered an injury to the head, later, authorities launched a medical examiner on Saturday, the examiner said it will take three weeks for forensic reports to come. And Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said, “There is no report of Mahsa Amini getting beaten up.”

(With inputs from Multiple Media Outlets)            

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