Amini was visiting the capital of Iran with her family when she was detained Tuesday by that special police unit, tasked with enforcing the strict dress code imposed on Iranian women.
Tehran police said in a statement Thursday that Amini had been detained along with other women to receive “explanations and instructions” about the dress code. “Suddenly, suffered a heart problem. She was immediately taken to hospital,” the statement said.
“Unfortunately, he passed away and his body has been transferred to the medico-legal institute,” state television said on Friday. The police confirmed the death in a statement stressing that “no” there was “physical contact” between the agents and the woman.
However, according to the Iranian branch of the NGO International Amnestythe young woman “was arbitrarily arrested by the so-called morality police” and there are allegations of torture during detention.
The television showed extracts of a video in which a room is seen, visibly in a police station, where numerous women appear. One of them, introduced as Mahsa Amini, gets up to argue with a “governess” and then collapses.
Before the announcement of his death on television, the Iranian presidency said in a statement that the president ebrahim raisi had commissioned the Minister of the Interior to investigate the case.
The country’s judicial authority also announced through its press agency Mizan Online the formation of a special team to investigate what happened.
From the islamic revolution Since 1979, the law in force in Iran requires women, Iranian or foreign – and whatever their religion – to go out with a veil on their heads. However, in the last 20 years more and more women in Tehran and other big cities leave a significant part of their hair visible despite the veil.
Source: Ambito
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