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.
A Iranian woman aged 22 yearsn is treated in comatose state after being arrested by moral police in Tehran, as human rights activists reported 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 drive away, taking his sister to the hospital. They informed him that he suffered a cardiac arrest and stroke and is in a coma.
“Not even two hours had passed between her arrest and her transfer to the hospital,” he said, declaring his determination to appeal to justice. “I have nothing to lose. I will not leave things like this, without protesting,” he added.
Tehran police in their statement confirmed that Mahsa Amini was arrested along with other women to give them “instructions” on 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.
“1500tasvir,” a social media account documenting human rights abuses by Iranian police, tweeted a photo showing the young woman, intubated, in 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.
RES-EMP
Read the News today and get the latest news.
Follow Skai.gr on Google News and be the first to know all the news.
I am currently a news writer for News Bulletin247 where I mostly cover sports news. I have always been interested in writing and it is something I am very passionate about. In my spare time, I enjoy reading and spending time with my family and friends.
