- Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested last Tuesday in Tehran for not wearing the hijab "properly dressed." He was taken to the police station and from there he was taken to the hospital in a coma. He died there. There have been many protests and detainees over the weekend. On the weekend they have called for a general strike in Eastern Kurdistan.
According to the official version, Amini died of a heart attack. However, the family does not believe in this version. His father explains that his daughter had no health problems and that those who talk about epilepsy and other diseases lie. Moreover, Amini's brother claims that his sister's face was swollen and his legs were loathed, as received by the Kurdish agency ANF.
Amini’s funeral was held on Saturday in the city of Aychi, in Eastern Kurdistan (Kurdistan, dependent on Iran). As a protest, many women took their veils away, clashes with the police and several wounded and detained. As in Aychin, there have also been protests elsewhere, such as the University of Tehran.
According to information provided by the Kurdish agency of the new Rudaw, thirteen people have been arrested in the protests and 38 have been injured by the police.
On the other hand, some women have cut their hair and burned hijabas, as can be seen in the videos broadcast on social networks.
Iranian women show their anger by cutting their hair and burning their hijab to protest against the killing of #Mahsa_Amini by hijab police.
From the age of 7 if we don’t cover our we won the able to go school or get to job. We are fed up with this gender apartheid regime pic.twitter.com/nqNSYL8dUb
— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) September 18, 2022
The Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has expressed his condolences by telephone to the relatives of Amini and announced that they will investigate the facts, as the Iranian public has reported.