Mahsa Amini

UN says Amini's death and allegations of torture must be 'promptly' investigated, but Iran's police deny she was beaten.

We call on the Iranian government to end its systemic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protest. We call on the Iranian government to end its systemic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protest,” he tweeted. He also accused the police of not transferring her to the hospital promptly, saying she could have been resuscitated. But Amini’s father said the family convinced them to let them bury her at 8am instead. Instead, the United States and the Iranian people mourn her. [September 19, 2022] [Amini](/news/2022/9/16/iranian-woman-dies-after-moral-polices-detention-reports) was detained on September 13 and taken to a “guidance centre” where she collapsed and died three days later.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died after being arrested by Iran's "morality police" for not properly wearing a hijab, sparking protests across the country.

[rejected the criticism](https://twitter.com/Amirabdolahian/status/1572191212215627777) and said on Twitter that Amini's death is being investigated by the judiciary and a parliamentary committees. The office said there are reports Amini was hit on the head with a baton and her head was struck against a vehicle during her arrest. [gunshots ](https://twitter.com/RadioFarda_/status/1571975716438155264)and [water cannons](https://twitter.com/BanafshehJamali/status/1571875956486443008) to break up crowds in Iran's capital city, Tehran, according to videos shared on social media by Iranian journalists. Human Rights Office said it has received numerous verified videos of women being slapped across the face, beaten with batons and thrown into police vans for not properly wearing the hijab. Dozens of women also [removed their headscarves in protest in 2017.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/02/02/iranian-women-arrested-while-protesting-headscarf-law/1089717001/) We call on the Iranian government to end its systemic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protest,” he said on Twitter. "The authorities must stop targeting, harassing, and detaining women who do not abide by the hijab rules." [Women can be seen on video ](https://twitter.com/ranarahimpour/status/1571895811365117953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1571895811365117953%7Ctwgr%5Ee697faf656efa99e209e8134b6f7cd7add7af021%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-middle-east-62967381)at the forefront of clashes with police taking off their headscarves. General Assembly, said he had told Amini’s family in a phone call that he has ordered an investigation and vowed to pursue the case. Iranian police said Amini died of a heart attack and released footage purportedly showing the moment she collapsed. Thousands of protesters across the country took to the streets after Amini's death, including those in her home city, Saqez, where she was buried Saturday. Amini collapsed at a detention center, fell into a coma and died three days later, the statement said.

The death last week of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police for "unsuitable attire" after allegedly wearing the hijab improperly, ...

Over the years, Kurdish claims have oscillated between full-on separatism and autonomy within a multi-ethnic Iranian state. He also accused the police of not transferring her to the hospital promptly enough, saying she could have been resuscitated. Protests erupted in Amini's home city of Saqez in western Iran on Saturday after her funeral. State TV showed footage of protests on Monday, including images of two police cars with their windows smashed. 🇮🇷#Iran: Acting UN Human Rights Chief calls for investigation into #Mahsa_Amini's death in custody following her arrest for what was perceived to be “improper” hijab. He said he holds the police responsible for her death. The UN Human Rights Office said Iran's morality police have expanded their patrols in recent months, targeting women for not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf, known as hijab. out of the previous deal. Amini fell into a coma and died while waiting with other women held by the morality police, who enforce strict rules in the Islamic Republic requiring women to cover their hair and wear loose-fitting clothes in public. "Mahsa Amini should be alive today," said U.S. Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Canada's government was following the protests closely. Human rights group Hengaw said three people were killed in Kurdistan on Monday after security forces opened fire.

Women in several Iranian cities removed and burned their hijabs (headscarves) to protest their country's mandatory hijab law as anti-regime demonstrations.

Qom is considered Iran’s “religious capital” as many senior Shia clerics are based there and the city is also home to the shrine of another important Shia figure. Mashhad is the birthplace of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and is home to the shrine of the eighth Shia Imam. In one video from Mashhad, protesters appeared to have taken control over two police cars. As during past days, protesters across Iran chanted against Khamenei and demanded regime change. The protests began after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, was pronounced dead on Friday. She then throws her headscarf into a fire and is cheered on by protesters.

Mahsa Amini, 22, was detained by Iran's morality police for "unsuitable attire" last week and later died after falling into a coma. Her woman's death has ...

The UN Human Rights Office said Iran's morality police have expanded their patrols in recent months, targeting women for not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf, known as hijab. The hijab has been compulsory for women in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but dozens of Iranians have taken to the streets in recent years to protest the law. Amini's family says she had no history of heart trouble.

Five people have been killed by Iranian security forces during protests that were sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who was being held in police custody, ...

One video shared by the Free Union of Iranian Workers showed protesters in Sanandaj chanting "death to dictator." But the explanations from the police were not accepted by protesters. Iranian officials said they have conducted an autopsy on Amini's body. However, her family said she did not have a pre-existing heart condition, Emtedad news, an Iranian pro-reform media outlet which claimed to have spoken to Amini's father, said. It said 75 others were injured in other cities over the weekend. The semi-official news agency Fars reported the protesters were "not convinced" by the police's justification of Amini's death and claimed she died "under torture."

In the video, a massive crowd cheers as a woman lifts a pair of scissors to her hair -- exposed, without a hijab in sight. The sea of people, many of them ...

"Two young men were hit and beaten up by plainclothes police and anti-riot police, then dragged to the van in front of (the) subway entrance gate," an eyewitness told CNN. In one video in Tehran, young protesters march around a bonfire on the street at night, chanting: "We are the children of war. Abdolreza Pourzahabi, Khamenei's representative in Iran's Kurdish province, said the Supreme Leader "is sad" and that the family's sorrow "is his sorrow too," according to Nour. "A wounded girl lying on the sidewalk was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and five others arrested on the north side of Enghelab Square." Footage shows some protesters chanting, "Women, life, freedom." A source said there was at least one instance of a heavy-handed police response on Tuesday, near Iran's Enghelab ("Revolution") Square on the western side of Tehran University -- historically a rallying point for protests.

Iran's morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdistan native, on 13 September in Tehran for "wearing unsuitable attire".

A human rights organisation reported that the death toll had reached six people killed and dozens injured by Wednesday. It is some of Iran's worst unrest since street clashes last year over water shortages. In the meantime, demonstrations over Amini's death have also been organised by the Iranian diaspora in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany, as well as in front of the UN headquarters in New York. The country's former President Hassan Rouhani eased the enforcement of the rules and openly accused the morality police of being too aggressive, leading to its chief promising to stop the arrests of women for violating the dress code in 2017. Amini's father rejected this, stating she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and reiterated that he held the police responsible for her death. Protests continued throughout Iran for the fifth night in a row over the death of a young woman said to have been severely beaten by the morality police tasked with enforcing a strict dress code for women.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei refrained on Wednesday from commenting on ongoing protests in his first public appearance since anti-regime.

[Middle East](/News/middle-east) Police deny the allegations. Protests erupted across Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, was pronounced dead on Friday. Some observers had expected Khamenei to comment on the ongoing protests in the country. “Sleep, old man, the people are awake.” The speech was broadcast on state TV.

The tragic death of a 22-year-old arrested by morality police has emboldened those seeking freedom.

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Last week the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in Tehran for “unsuitable attire”, unleashed severe public unrest.

Her father said she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police responsible for her death. The police have denied harming her.Her father said she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police responsible for her death. Meanwhile, in the West, the hijab is encouraged as a symbol of diversity.— Andy Ngô ��️�� (@MrAndyNgo) In this incident, four other police officers were injured,” the IRNA news agency said. Protests erupted five days earlier after the death of a woman in police custody. Her name was Masha Amini.

Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran following her arrest for alleged dress code violations is shocking. The use of violence in response to the expression of fundamental rights, by women or any other members of Iranian society, is wholly unjustifiable. Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

On 13 September, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, originally from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, in western Iran, was in Tehran, having travelled there to ...

[UN Human Rights Office](https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220920-un-calls-for-probe-into-iranian-woman-s-death-in-morality-police-s-custody), which says the police have been targeting women, and claims to have verified videos of women being slapped in the face, beaten with batons and thrown into police vans for even just wearing the hijab too loosely. Protests yesterday resulted in the death of one member of the [police ](https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=127X618962&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.sky.com%2Fstory%2Fmahsa-amini-police-assistant-dead-and-four-officers-injured-during-more-violent-protests-12702406&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.harpersbazaar.com%2Fuk%2Fculture%2Fculture-news%2Fa41294323%2Fwhat-happened-to-mahsa-amini%2F)and the now widespread burning of [headscarves](https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/21/middleeast/iran-mahsa-amini-death-widespread-protests-intl-hnk/index.html). In fact, the actions of the so-called 'morality police' have been heavily criticised by the [The White House](https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-demands-accountability-death-iranian-woman-after-hijab-arrest-2022-09-19/) said: "Mahsa Amini's death after injuries sustained while in police custody for wearing an 'improper' hijab is an appalling and egregious front to human rights." Amini’s father has hotly contested these allegations, saying he believes he has been given heavily-edited CCTV footage that contradicts her bruising and eye-witness accounts, telling the reformist-leaning Iranian [Rouydad24](https://iranhumanrights.org/2022/09/mahsa-aminis-father-everything-they-have-said-and-shown-is-lies/) newspaper: “They said Mahsa had heart disease and epilepsy but as the father who raised her for 22 years, I say loudly that Mahsa did not have any illness. [already-contested](https://www.arabnews.com/node/2163391/world) presence of Ebrahim Raisi at the UN this week. [existing conditions](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/19/irans-police-denies-women-who-died-in-custody-was-beaten). Despite the efforts of the medical team, they failed to revive her and the patient died." "Resuscitation was performed on the patient, the heartbeat returned and the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit," they originally wrote, reports CCTV videos of the event, released later by the Tehran police, show her collapsing to the ground at the moment of her arrest. She was at the entry of Haqqani Highway with her brother Kiaresh Amini when she was arrested by the regime’s so-called 'Guidance Patrol' and transferred to the 'Moral Security' agency, allegedly for wearing an inappropriate hijab. Across Tehran and cities in the Kurdistan province, people have taken to the streets, in violent scuffles which have resulted in an estimated 221 wounded people, 250 arrests and

Internet blackouts and Instagram blocks also reported amid anger after 22-year-old woman's death in custody.

During her detention, she said, she “had suffered physical and psychological torture that remains with me to this day … In a CBS interview, Raisi claimed further investigations were required to determine if the Holocaust happened. I still believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this goal.” On Wednesday, the country’s supreme leader gave a televised speech in which he did not mention the protests but warned how young people should not “fall for western powers’ deception”. And a Kurdish human rights group, Hengaw, said two more people had been killed by police, raising the claimed death toll since Amini’s death to six. No meeting is planned between Raisi and the US president, Joe Biden.

Amini, 22, died Friday, several days after she was arrested in Tehran by the country's "morality police" for violating hijab laws. Her death has sparked ...

[In a tweet](https://twitter.com/USEnvoyIran/status/1570826454182797312?s=20&t=Nf3dGsvAl_GqLn4xfQoe0g) in response to Amini's death, Robert Malley, the U.S. [honor killings](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/middleeast/iran-honor-killing-romina-ashrafi-intl/index.html), continues in Iran, and the country's [laws do little to protect them](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/gender-based-violence-iran), experts say. [ongoing protests](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%DB%8C&src=trend_click&vertical=trends) over Amini's death and another that essentially states, ["No to the Islamic Republic." But backers of the establishment have been blasting out their own hashtag: "My Iran." [reported](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62967381). said, adding that the morality police have recently stepped up street patrols. Police reject the allegations, saying Amini died after being taken to a hospital because she had a heart attack. [IRNA news agency](https://en.irna.ir/news/84889658/Iranian-police-releases-footage-of-young-woman-died-after-arrest). [said in a statement](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/09/mahsa-amini-acting-un-human-rights-chief-urges-impartial-probe-death-iran). [he said](https://web.archive.org/web/20220919025955/https:/www.president.ir/en/139571). [reported](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209165767). [Iran International](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209172983).

The death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran's "morality police" has sparked demonstrations from the Kurdish west to the holy city ...

Another video from Rasht, also on the Caspian, shows a crowd of young men crowded around a police officer, who is wielding what appears to be a kind of stun gun. In a video from Kerman, in southeastern Iran, a young woman sitting on a utility box, surrounded by a cheering crowd, is seen removing her headscarf and cutting off her own hair. Many of the protests have been concentrated in the west, the poor, predominantly Kurdish region Amini’s family hails from. In a video from Qom, a center of religious scholarship, protesters march through the street, whistling, and some throw rocks. In those protests, like the ones now shaking the country, the authorities responded by cutting internet service and resorting in some cases to the use of deadly force, including live ammunition. Many were led by women, who burned their headscarves, cut their hair and chanted, “Death to the dictator.”

Iranian security forces are violently quashing largely peaceful protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death on 16 September, days after her violent arrest by ...

“Iran’s security forces will continue to feel emboldened to kill or injure protesters and prisoners, including women arrested for defying abusive compulsory veiling laws, if they are not held accountable. A journalist from Baneh similarly told Amnesty International: “Security forces directly shot people in their stomachs and backs at close range… An eyewitness reported seeing scores of arrested protesters in Kamyaran with fractured heads, noses or arms and bloodied bodies. Consistent eyewitness accounts and video footage leave no doubt that those firing weapons during the protests belonged to Iran’s security forces. Their urgent need for action was demonstrated most recently by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, and the barrage of gunfire unleashed on protesters which has left at least eight people dead and hundreds injured, Amnesty International said today. On 19 September, mass protests spread from Saqqez to other cities populated by Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority including Baneh, Dehgolan, Divandareh, Kamyaran, Mahabad, and Sanandaj. The source said security forces also fired birdshot at another young man, 22-year-old Parsa Sehat, who consequently lost sight in both eyes. Most of them were injured in their backs as they were running away.” Of these, at least four died from injuries sustained from security forces firing metal pellets at close range. Four other victims, Reza Lotfi and Foad Ghadimi in Dehgolan, Kurdistan province; Mohsen Mohammadi in Divandareh, Kurdistan province; and 16-year-old boy Zakaria Khial in Urumieh were killed. At least two other people have lost sight in one or both eyes. He has been given a platform on the world stage, despite credible evidence of his

Officials have claimed that Amini was detained for breaking the Iranian law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf and their limbs with loose ...

In the Iranian city of Kerman, where women are required to wear hijabs in public, many took to the streets on Tuesday to protest Amini’s death, and elsewhere women were seen [burning their hijabs](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/middleeast/iran-mahsa-amini-death-widespread-protests-intl-hnk/index.html) and chanting, “Women, life, freedom” and “Death to the dictator” (referring to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader). [Protests](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wave-protests-iran-reflects-seething-anger-regime-treats-women-rcna48643) have erupted outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, as well as in Tehran and beyond. Below, find all the details on who Amini was, why she was detained by the Iranian morality police, and how her death has sparked a wave of resistance (particularly among women) in Iran.