22 year old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini fell into a brain coma After he was arrested in Tehran on Tuesday this week by the morality police of the country of Iran. According to the police, Amini she put on the veil —Mandatory in Iran since the founding of the Islamic Republic in 1979— very low and without covering the head.
In the Iranian capital it is normal to see a large number of women with their veils falling over their hair. without completely covering, as if the most conservative sections of Islam were doing it. In some moderate Iranian governments, the police stopped trying to persecute and punish these women.
But all that changed with the new manager of ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisi, who won the elections last year. Since their victory, the moral police have been a arrest and good campaign “women who do not wear headscarves properly”.
Such was the case of young Amini. As her brother explained to Iranian opposition media outlet IranWire, the young woman was stopped in the middle of the street and put into a police van. “They told me they were going to take him to the police station. a ‘re-education’ class and they’ll release him in an hour,” his older brother Kiarash recalls.
“When I came to the building, I saw 60-70 people carrying the clothes of the women held inside. Some were released and then we started to hear screams inside. We knocked on the doors and then the attendants came out. hit us with bats and pepper spray”, continues Kiarash, who at that moment saw how an ambulance came out of the police station. Her sister was inside.
Heart attack
At the hospital, doctors told Kiarash that his sister had had a heart attack and although they were able to regenerate her heart, his brain had stopped working. “Mahsa’s face is shattered. His legs are blue and swollen. From now on I have nothing to lose. I’ll keep all Iran informed of what’s going on. My sister was trapped in her hospital bed while I was being followed by the police,” the young man told IranWire.
“I’m trying to find words for the hate and anger I have right now. The sad truth is that we Iranian women are at war with the Islamic Republic when we leave the house every day, even if we don’t know it. The truth is that our country is under occupation and we must be united so that no one becomes a victim,” he said.