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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 04:43 PM Sep 2022

Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest

Source: BBC

Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest

By Rana Rahimpour
BBC Persian

16 September 2022

A 22-year-old Iranian woman has died days after being arrested by morality police for allegedly not complying with strict rules on head coverings.

Eyewitnesses said Mahsa Amini was beaten while inside a police van when she was picked up in Tehran on Tuesday.

Police have denied the allegations, saying Ms Amini had "suddenly suffered a heart problem".

It is the latest in a series of reports of brutality against women by authorities in Iran in recent weeks.

Ms Amini's family say that she was a healthy young woman with no medical conditions that would explain a sudden heart problem.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62930425


Police denied eyewitness reports that Mahsa Amini had been beaten

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Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2022 OP
Have our police been training their police? Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #1
Or the other way around? niyad Sep 2022 #2
From The Guardian: Family was told she'd be released after a 're-education session' appalachiablue Sep 2022 #3
What Republicans want wils3038 Sep 2022 #4

appalachiablue

(41,055 posts)
3. From The Guardian: Family was told she'd be released after a 're-education session'
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 08:41 PM
Sep 2022

.. According to Hrana, an Iranian human rights organisation, Amini’s family were told during her arrest that she would be released after a “re-education session”.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016332201

wils3038

(13 posts)
4. What Republicans want
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 03:11 PM
Sep 2022

What happened in Iran where the police beat a young woman to death for not wearing a head scarf is exactly what Republicans want here in America.

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