The new protest broke out on Monday in Iran for the death of a young woman who had been captured by “Moral Police” who enforced a tight dress code, local media reported. The public anger has grown since the authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days in a coma, after his arrest by the Tehran Morality Police during a visit to the capital on September 13. Demonstrations were held in Tehran, including in several universities, and the second city of Mashhad, according to Fars and Tasnim News Agency. The protesters lined up in Hijab Street – or “Jalan Title” – in Central Tehran who criticized the Moral Police, the Isna news agency reported.
“Several hundred people shouted the slogan -logan against the authorities, some of them took off their headscarves,” said Fars, added that “the police arrested several people and dissolved the crowd using sticks and tear gas”. A short video released by Fars shows the crowd of several dozen people, including women who have released their headscarves, shouting “Death of the Islamic Republic!” A “similar meeting” took place in the city of Northeastern Mashhad, the Tasnim agent reported.
On Sunday, the police made an arrest and fired tear gas in the province of a dead woman’s house, Kurdistan, where around 500 people protested, several windows of cars that destroyed and burned trash bins, reports. anger The Morality Police Unit enforces the clothing code in the Islamic Republic which demands women wearing a hijab in public. It also forbade tight pants, torn jeans, clothes that exposed knees and brightly colored clothes. The police insisted there was “no physical contact” between officers and victims.
Tehran Police Chief General Hossein Rahimi said Monday the woman had violated the code of dress, and that her colleagues had asked her relatives to bring “decent clothes”. He rejected “unfair accusations against the police” and said “evidence shows that there is no inappropriate negligence or behavior on the police”. “This is an unfavorable incident and we don’t want to see an incident like that anymore.” Students gathered at Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University, demanding “clarification” about how Amini died, according to Fars and Tasnim News Agency.
A spokesman for the head of the European Union Foreign Policy Josep Borrell said Amini’s “unacceptable” death was “murder” after the injury he suffered in police custody. Perpetrators must be held accountable and Iran’s authority must respect the rights of its citizens, a spokesman added in a statement. France said his death was “very surprising” and called for “transparent investigation … to explain the state of this tragedy”.
Amini’s death has turned on the call to control the actions of moral police against women suspected of violating the code of dress, basically since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Filmists, artists, athletes, and political and religious figures have been brought to social media to express their anger. President Ebrahim Raisi, a former head of a very conservative court in power last year, has ordered an investigation of Amini’s death.
Confused father – Government television on Friday broadcasts a short supervisory video showing a woman identified as Amini collapsed at the police station after a fight with a female police officer. Amjad Amini, the victim’s father, told Fars that he did “not accepting what (the police) showed him”, with the reason that “the film had been cut”. He also criticized the “slow response” from emergency services, adding: “I believe Mahsa was moved to the hospital late.”
Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that he had received a report that the emergency service had arrived “immediately” at the scene. However, his father, “insisting that his daughter has no history of disease and in perfect health”, Fars reported. “Mahsa seems to have previous physical problems and we have reports that he has undergone brain surgery at the age of five,” Vahidi said.
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