Three people were killed during demonstrations in Iranian Kurdistan protesting the death of a young woman after her arrest by morality policeAn Iranian official announced on Tuesday
Demonstrations broke out on Sunday in Tehran and Iranian Kurdistan following the announcement of the death on Friday of Mahsa Aminioriginally from this region.
This 22-year-old Iranian woman was in a coma after being arrested by the police unit in charge of enforcing Islamic Republic’s strict dress code for womenparticularly the wearing of the veil in public.
Amini died on Friday three days after being hospitalized following her arrest by police.
According to the Iranian authorities, the young woman died of natural causes, but according to information released by activists and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights she was violently beaten on the head and against a police vehicle.
This Tuesday, the Governor of Kurdistan Ismail Zarei Koosha spoke of three “suspicious” deaths during the demonstrations, and of a “plot promoted by the enemy”, assuring that one of the victims died by a different type of weapon than the one used by the forces. Iranian security.
Faced with the anger provoked by the death of the young woman, the representative of the Supreme Guide Ali Khamenei in Kurdistan, went to the family home of Masha Amini, according to the agency Tasnim.
The emissary told the family that “measures will be taken” and that Ayatollah Khamenei was “saddened” by this death. “As I promised the Amini family, I will follow this case to the end,” he assured.
Abroad, the United Nations Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashifexpressed on Tuesday “its concern about the death of Mahsa Amini during his detention and about the violent reaction of the Iranian security forces to the demonstrations that followed.”
“The tragic death of Mahsa Amini and the allegations of torture and ill-treatment must be investigated quickly, impartially and effectively (…)” added Al Nashif.
Amini’s death has generated a international outcryand US Secretary of State Antony Blinken himself called on Monday “the Iranian government to put an end to its systematic persecution of women and to allow peaceful protests.”
The surveillance that these norms are fulfilled corresponds to a special police unit, known as “morality police”, which has the power to arrest women who do not respect the dress code, although they are usually released with a warning.
In an unusual position, an Iranian parliamentarian criticized this special unit, whose actions are controversial. “The Gasht e Ershad (morale patrol) does not achieve any results except causing damage to the country,” MP Jalal Rashidi Koochi told the news agency. ISNA.
“Do the people who are led by this unit to these ‘explanation sessions’ regain consciousness and repent when they leave?” the legislator asks.
The President of Parliament himself Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf He told the official Irna news agency that “to avoid the repetition of such cases,” like that of the deceased girl, “the methods used by these patrols should be reviewed.”
The UN human rights office called for an investigation. The United States, which is trying to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, has called on the Islamic Republic to end its “systemic persecution” of women. Italy also condemned her death.
Iranian officials dismissed the criticism as politically motivated and accused unnamed foreign countries of fomenting the unrest.
The UN body said Iran’s morality police have expanded their patrols in recent months, targeting women for not properly wearing the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab. He said the verified videos show women slapped, beaten with batons and thrown into police vans for wearing hijabs too loosely.
Italy’s foreign ministry called for “the perpetrators of this cowardly act” to be held accountable, saying “violence against innocent people, especially women and girls, can never be tolerated.”
(With information from AFP and AP)
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