Dozens injured after funeral and women’s sit-ins and demonstrations at Tehran University to commemorate young woman murdered at the hands of the moral police
Saqqez fired Mahsa Amini shouting, “Death to the dictator, death to the dictator!” Many of the women who attended the cemetery in this city in Kurdistan, Iran, took off their veils and waved their handkerchiefs in the air in protest at the death of the 22-year-old girl. After his funeral, the streets of Saqqez erupted in a massive protest that has left at least 33 injured so far, four of whom have been taken to Tabriz hospital in serious condition.
Documentary filmmaker Mehrdad Ahmadzade traveled from Tehran to cover the news and captured very hard images of the brutal response of the security forces with some young people injured by bullets. At the University of Tehran, there were also moments of tension with sit-ins and protest marches by female students on campus to commemorate Amini, who died while in custody by the moral police.
Amini traveled to Tehran on Tuesday to visit his family and police arrested him in the middle of the street “for disrespecting the dress code”. As they do with all inmates, they took him to what they call a “re-education center,” but he never got out alive. The young Kurdish woman was admitted to a hospital in the capital in a coma, where she was pronounced dead three days later. Police say he suffered a heart attack, but the family does not believe this version. His father insists in the interviews that various media have done with him that “he had no disease and that those who speak of epilepsy or any other condition are lying.” Her brother, Kiarash, told the Iran Wire portal that “Masha’s face was swollen and her legs were bruised.”
Amini is already a symbol of the women who resist the norm that forces them to cover themselves on the streets of the Islamic republic, which has been in force since its foundation in 1979. The president, Ebrahim Raisi, has ordered an investigation into this dead. a month after the order was given to tighten controls on measures to monitor women’s clothing on the country’s streets.
Source: La Verdad
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