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Iran: Young woman fell into a coma two hours after being arrested by the morality police because of her clothes

A Iranian aged 22 is hospitalized in a comatose state after being arrested by morality police in Tehran, human rights activists said today.

Mahsha Amini was visiting the Iranian capital with her family when she was arrested by this special police team responsible, among other things, for forcing women to wear the headscarf.

Her brother told the IranWire website that while he was waiting for her outside the police station, he saw an ambulance leaving, taking his sister to the hospital. Tbeing informed that suffered cardiac arrest and stroke and that he is in a coma.

“Not even two hours had passed since arrest her until her transfer to the hospital”, he said, declaring his determination to go to court. “I have nothing to lose. DI will not leave things like that, without protesting“, he added.

Tehran police in their statement confirmed that Mahsa Amini was arrested along with other women to give them “instructions» for the dress code. “He suddenly suffered a heart problem (…) and was immediately taken to a hospital, with the cooperation of the police and emergency services,” this text added.

THE “1500 tasvir,” a social media account documenting human rights abuses by Iranian police, tweeted a photo showing the young woman, intubated, in the hospital. “Machsa Amini’s situation is an example of a deliberate crime. The systematic oppression of women in Iran, under the guise of implementing the headscarf law, is a crime,” said freedom of expression activist Hossein Ronagi.

After the Islamic Revolution, in 1979, women, Iranian and foreign, regardless of religion, are obliged to move around with their heads and bodies covered. The zeal of the authorities for the implementation of the law, however, relaxed during the presidency of the moderate Hassan Rouhani, and many Iranian women, in the big cities, let their hair be seen. In recent months, since the ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi took over the presidency, there has been a proliferation of police interventions to enforce the law.

Source: News Beast

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