Amini, 22, was arrested for wearing the veil incorrectly, and died from the blows she received while in police custody, according to her family. The country is burning with mobilizations, strikes and confrontations with the Police that have lasted four weeks.
Iran has lived this Saturday one of the hardest days of the protests unleashed by the death of Mahsa Aminiwith clashes in a dozen cities, strikes and boos to the president Iranian, Ebrahim Raisí, in demonstrations that enter their fourth week.
The NGO Iran Human Rights has already put the number of deaths at 185, including 19 children, for the repression of the protests in the country by forces related to the Iranian authorities. In addition, he has denounced in the last hours the murder of 16-year-old protester Sarina Esmailzadeh due to a beating by the security forces.
After three days off without protests – Wednesday was a holiday and Thursday and Friday are the weekend in the country – the Iranian week began with renewed cries of “Woman, freedom life” after calls for demonstrations by university centers and activists.
Around Tehran’s prestigious Sharif University, small groups of young men and women without veils milled around corners throwing slogans, amid a heavy police presencewith dozens of riot police in the area.
The shocks were being especially hard in the iranian kurdistanregion of origin of Amini, where also in its capital, Sanandaj, there was a day of strike with closed shops.
official version of iran
Mahsa Amini, 22, died on September 16 after being arrested three days earlier by the so-called Morale Police in Tehran for considering that she was wearing the Islamic headscarf in the wrong way.
Iran’s state-run Forensic Medicine Organization said Friday that Amini passed away from a previous ailment, and not because of beatings by the Police. The family continues to claim that Amini died from the beating she received while she was in police custody.
Source: Eitb
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