The death of Mahsa Amini occurs while the controversy swells on the conduct of the moral police, which patrols in public places to verify the application of the Act on the scarf and other Islamic rules.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
Her name was Mahsa Amini. This 22 -year -old Iranian died on Friday, three days after her arrest by moral police in Tehran. His funeral, Saturday September 17, in his hometown of Saqqez, in the province of Kurdistan, gave rise to a demonstration that the Iranian security forces dispersed with tear gas. The day before, a rally had taken place near the
Mahsa Amini was arrested Tuesday by the police unit responsible for enforcing the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic for women, including the compulsory port of the scarf in public. State television announced Friday its death after three days in Coma.
two hours between arrest and transfer to the hospital
Her brother said to the website Iranwire that he was waiting for his sister outside the police station, he saw an ambulance out and take him to the ‘ hospital. He says he was informed that she had made a heart and cerebral attack and that she was in a coma. “It only took place two hours between his arrest and his transfer to the hospital,” he said, announcing his intention to file a complaint. I have nothing to lose. I will not leave things like that Without protesting. “
After his funeral, people “chanted slogans by demanding detailed investigations into this case,” reports the Iranian news agency Fars. The “demonstrators then gathered in front of the governor’s office” chanting “other slogans” before being “dispersed by the security forces, which fired tear gas”.
State television broadcast extracts from a video on Friday showing a room, visibly in a police station, where many women can be seen. One of them, presented as Mahsa Amini, gets up to chat with an “instructor” about her dress, then she collapses. In another extract, the emergency service carries the woman’s body to an ambulance. Tehran’s police confirmed the death on Friday, saying “that there had been no physical contact” between police officers and the young woman.
The abuses of the moral police
The Iranian presidency had announced, for his part, that President Ebrahim Raïssi had charged the Minister of the Interior to investigate this case. The head of the Office of the Legalist’s Legalist of Tehran said on Saturday on state television that investigations on the cause of the young woman was underway but that they would take three weeks.
The Iranian filmmaker asghadi a farhadi Reacted on his Instagram account and described the death of aian in detention as “crime”. The death of Mahsa Amini occurs while the controversy swells on the conduct the police of the customs, which patrols in public places to verify the application of the law on the scarf and other Islamic rules.
Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the law has imposed on all women the wearing of a veil covering their heads and necks while hiding the hair. However, the last two decades, more and more women in Tehran and in other large cities leave locks of hair, or even more, exceed their veil.