When public anger increased in Iran, three deaths were reported during protests over the death of a young woman who had been captured by “moral police,” who enforced a tight clothing code. The authorities announced on Friday that Mahsa Amini, 22, died in the hospital after three days in a coma after being arrested by the Tehran Morality Police during a visit to the capital on September 13.
In addition to the hijab rules, the police did not provide an explanation why Amini was detained, a report said by The New York Times. His mother told the Iranian news outlet that his daughter followed the rules and wore a long and loose robe. He claimed that Amini was arrested when he came out of the subway with his brother, even though there was a request that they were city visitors.
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But death caused a stir in the country in the midst of demonstrations in Tehran, including in several universities, and in Mashhad, the second largest city in the country. The protesters lined up in Hijab Street, or “the way title,” in Central Tehran, condemned the Moral Police, according to the Isna news agency.
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 accept what (the police) showed him”, with the reason that “the film has been cut”.
According to a statement issued by Iranian security forces, Amini suffered a heart attack at the detention center when receiving educational training on hijab rules. But his family denied this claim, claiming he was very healthy before his arrest.
The victim’s father also criticized “slow response” from emergency services, added: “I believe Mahsa was transferred 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. “Mahsa seems to have previous physical problems and we have reports that he has undergone brain surgery at the age of five,” Vahidi said.
A photo and video of Amini became viral on social media, showing her unconscious in a hospital bed with a tube in her mouth and nose, blood flowed from her ears, and bruises around her eyes.
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Some Iranian doctors said on Twitter that while they did not have access to their medical files, bleeding from his ears suggested that he had a concussion due to head injury.
Iranian rules about clothing
In the Islamic Republic, the Moral Police Unit imposes clothing codes that require women to wear the hijab in public. Tights, torn jeans, clothes that expose their knees, and brightly colored clothes are also prohibited.
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In an effort to modernize his country and instill a sense of national identity, Pahlavi Shah first issued a decision that prohibited the hijab in 1936; He also mandated European -style hats for men, the report said. The decree was revoked a few years later, when Shah was forced to exile and his little son took over as the ruler. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi expanded his father’s secular attitude, pro-West, and as anti-government activism gained an attraction in the 1970s, many women consciously adopted the hijab or chador which included all as a real rejection of the monarchy.
Even at the beginning of the post-revolutionary era, the report explained, the country’s efforts to force and enforce the hijab to meet with fierce opposition. In the weeks after the death of the monarchy, instructions about the crush over women’s clothing triggered some post-revolutionary protests, attracting thousands of women to the streets in March 1979 to warn that the imposition of new leadership over the hijab threatened their rights. “There is no freedom in the dawn of freedom,” their slogan left.
