Woman, 22, Dies Days After Arrest By 'Morality Police' Over Hijab In Iran

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An Iranian young woman who fell in a coma after being arrested in Tehran by the famous moral police died on Friday, government media and her family said, with activists urged those who were responsible for their deaths “suspicious” brought to court.

Mahsa Amini, 22, was visiting with her family to the capital of Iran when she was detained on Tuesday by the police unit responsible for upholding the tight clothing code of the Islamic Republic for women, which included the use of the mandatory hijab in public.

Unfortunately, he died and his body was moved to the medical examination office,” Iran’s state television reported.

Persian -language media, including the Iran Wire website and Shargh newspaper, quoted his family who said that Amini who had previously been healthy had been rushed to the hospital in a coma a few hours after his arrest and now died.

It is unclear what happened between him arrived at the police station and his departure to the hospital. Channel 1500Tavsir who monitored the violation in Iran said he suffered a punch on the head.

The picture posted on social media shows the crowd gathered outside the hospital where he was treated and the police tried to disperse dozens of gathered. People were also shouted angrily shouting anti-rezim slogans at night in Tehran.

The situation that caused suspicious death in detention of a 22 -year -old young woman Mahsa Amini, which included accusations of torture and other bad treatment in detention, must be criminalized,” said Amnesty International.

The so-called ‘Morality Police’ in Tehran arbitrarily arrested him three days before his death while upholding the rude, demeaning and discriminatory forced veil law. All responsible agents and officials must face justice,” he added.

Robert Malley, a US envoy for Iran involved in an effort to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, said those who were responsible for his death “must be held accountable”.

The death of Mahsa Amini after the injury was detained due to the ‘unworthy’ hijab,” he wrote on Twitter. “Iran must end violence against women for carrying out their basic rights.

State television broadcasts on Friday which is said to show he fell to the ground in a large hall full of women while arguing with one of the female instructors about her dress.

In a statement on Friday, Tehran police insisted “no physical meeting” between officers and Amini.It is said that Amini was among a number of women who had been taken to the police station to instructions” in the clothing code on Tuesday.He suddenly fainted when with other visitors in the hall,” the statement said.

Previously, President Ebrahim Raisi ordered the Minister of the Interior to open an investigation of the Amini case.

The Head of the New York -based Human Rights Center in Iran, Hadi Ghaemi, described his death as a tragedy that can be prevented”.

The government in Iran is responsible. He was arrested with a forced hijab hijab that was discriminatory against the state and died in state custody,” he said.

Amini’s death occurred amidst the controversy that grew both inside and outside of Iran over the behavior of moral police, which formally known as gasht-e ershad (guidance patrol).

In July, a video of a woman standing in front of one of the troops who requested the release of her daughter to become viral on social media.

The hidden woman continued to hold on to Van when she exploded, only clearly thrown after speed gathering.