At least four people have died and 75 more have been injured by live ammunition fired by Iranian security forces during riots in which Iranian youths have protested in various cities in Iran for the fourth consecutive day for the death of Mahsa Amini. Amini, 22, died on Friday as a result of the heart attack and coma that she suffered on Tuesday at a Tehran police station, where she was detained by the so-called Morale Police. for not wearing the veil wellcompulsory garment in the country.
Several universities in Tehran registered protests by student groups, demonstrations that spread to several cities in the province of Iranian Kurdistan, Where was Amini originally from?reported media such as the Tasnim agency or the Aftab newspaper. Security forces dispersed some of the protests with tear gas and dozens of people were arrested, according to Aftab.
Iranian journalists shared videos on social networks in which they observed strong clashes between demonstrators and police officers and Basijis, Islamic volunteers, but their authenticity has not been verified. In some of them shots are heard. Two of the deceased correspond to the city of Saghez, where Amini was originally from. In that locality, at least 17 more wounded have been counted. In addition, among the wounded there is a ten-year-old girl who would be hospitalized with a critical prognosis after being shot in the head in the town of Bukan, according to Hengaw and reported by Kurdish-Iraqi television Rudaw.
Many of these protests echoed slogans such as “Women, Life and Liberty”, “Servitude, unemployment and compulsory veil” or “Without fear, we are all together”. The protests began on Friday after learning of Amini’s death, continued on Saturday during her funeral in her hometown of Saghez, and continued into the night on Sunday.
The Fars agency, close to the Revolutionary Guard, reported that some 500 people protested this Sunday night in the city of Sanandaj, in demonstrations in which garbage containers were burned and slogans were chanted against the country’s leaders. Many of the protesters were arrested, although it was not specified how many.
Arrest for wearing the veil wrong
Amini was arrested on Tuesday by the so-called Morale Police in Tehran, where was he visitingand transferred to a police station to attend “an hour of re-education” for wearing the veil wrong.
Hours later she was admitted to Kasra Hospital in the capital in a coma after suffering a heart attack. The police then stated that the young woman “suddenly suffered a heart problem” and published a video in which Amini is allegedly seen falling to the ground while talking to an officer at the police station, but the family has not confirmed that it is her.
The parents of the young They have denied that he suffered from any type of illness, contrary to what some official Iranian media have published. Tehran Police Chief Hossein Rahimi on Monday described Amini’s death as “an unfortunate incident” and said it is false that the young woman was beaten or ill-treated in police custody.
“It’s an unfortunate incident and we hope there will be no similar incidents“, Rahimi said at a press conference. The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, ordered an investigation to clarify what happened and judicial bodies have assured that they will go to the end to determine the causes of death.
The government of the ultraconservative Raisí pressure has increased in recent months for women to abide by the strict dress code. The veil has been mandatory since the 1979 revolution led by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini, who declared that without it women were “naked”.
Source: Lasexta
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