Outrage: Iranian woman allegedly beaten by police for wearing the veil wrongly dies

an iranian woman Mahsa Amini passed away this Friday, September 16 as a result of heart attack and the eat that she suffered in a police station, where she was detained by the Morale Police for not wearing the veil well, media from the Persian country reported.

“Mahsa Amini, who fell into a coma after being detained by a morality patrol, has died,” the reformist daily Etemad reported in a brief note, citing an uncle of the victim as a source.

The 22-year-old woman was arrested last Tuesday afternoon for not wearing the veil correctly and was taken to a police station to attend “a reeducation time”, denounced his family.

Hours later, she was admitted to the Kasra hospital in the Iranian capital in a coma after suffering a heart attack. The news began to spread like wildfire through social networks, in which many users expressed their outrage.

The Police confirmed, last Thursday, his arrest to “explain the dress code” in a statement in which he denied responsibility.

“Suddenly, she suffered a heart problem (…) and was immediately taken to a hospital,” police authorities said in a statement collected by Iranian media.

The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi ordered this Friday an inquiry to clarify what happened.

“President Ebrahim Raisí has ​​ordered the Ministry of Interior to investigate the details of the Mahsa incident urgently and accurately, and to submit a report with the results,” the Iranian government announced on Twitter.

For its part, International Amnesty (AI) called for a criminal investigation into the girl’s suspicious death in police custody. In addition, the human rights group described the laws that make the veil mandatory as “abusive, degrading and discriminatory”.

The explanations of the Police have not convinced many Iranians who have shown their outrage on social networks.

“Mahsa Amini’s arrest for (clothing) guidance, followed by her heart attack and coma, it’s enough for several generations of young people to hate religion”, expressed yesterday on Twitter the reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Abtahi who held the vice presidency of the country between 2001 and 2004.

The government of the ultra-conservative Raisí has ​​in recent months increased the pressure for women to comply with the strict rules of dress and conduct.

Thus, the dreaded vans of the so-called Morale Police are more visible than before in places like Tajrish Square, in the north of Tehran, full of women who have been arrested for not wearing the veil properly.

This garment is mandatory since the 1979 revolution led by the Ayatollah Ruholah Khomeini who declared that without him women were “naked”.

Source-larepublica.pe