The Iranian girl Mahsa Aminiaged 22, died as a result of the heart attack and coma he suffered in a police station, where he was arrested by the morality police for not wearing the veil properlyreported media from the Persian country.
“Mahsa Amini, who fell into a coma following being detained by a morality patrol, has died,” the reformist daily Etemad reported in a brief report, citing an uncle of the young woman as a source.
Amini was arrested on Tuesday followingnoon for not wearing the veil correctly and was taken to a police station to attend “an hour of reeducation”, denounced his family. Hours later she was admitted to the Kasra Hospital in the capital: she was in a coma following suffering a heart attack.
The news began to spread like wildfire on social networks, where many users expressed their outrage.
Police on Thursday confirmed his arrest for “explain the dress code” in a statement in which they denied responsibility. “She suddenly suffered a heart problem (…) and she was immediately taken to a hospital,” the police said in a statement collected by Iranian media.
The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, ordered this Friday an investigation to clarify what happened.
“President Ebrahim Raisí has ordered the Ministry of the Interior to investigate the details of the Mahsa incident urgently and accuratelyand to present a report with the results,” the Iranian government reported on Twitter.
For its part, Amnesty International (AI) called for a criminal investigation into the suspicious death of the young woman in police custody. In addition, the group that watches over human rights 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 is enough for several generations of young people hate religion”Reformist cleric Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as the country’s vice president from 2001 to 2004, said on Twitter.
The government of the ultra-conservative Raisí has increased pressure in recent months for women to comply with strict rules of dress and conduct. Thus, the dreaded vans of the so-called Morale Police are more visible than before in places like the Tajrish Square, in the north of Tehran, full of women who have been arrested for not wearing the veil properly.
The veil is mandatory since the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeiní, who declared that without him women were “naked”.