“They killed my angel,” she stated in an interview with BBC Persian on Friday.
The police stated that Amini suffered a coronary heart assault after being taken to a police “education and advice” middle, state media stated. Her household insisted that she had no prior well being issues, and activists asserted that she might have been overwhelmed by the police. On Friday, as scattered protests erupted in Tehran over the loss of life, the inside ministry ordered an investigation, which it stated was ordered by Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi.
The headband and different conservative costume, often called hijab, have been obligatory for girls since Iran’s 1979 revolution. Raisi, a tough line cleric who assumed workplace final yr, has known as for strict enforcement of the costume codes. The steering patrols have turn into more and more assertive of late, with their distinctive green-striped vans featured in a collection of movies which have gone viral on-line and provoked anger — together with one from final month that appeared to point out a detained woman being thrown from a dashing van.
Another recent video showed a mom stepping in entrance of one of many vans whereas her daughter was inside, attempting to cease it from transferring by inserting her palms on the hood.
The authorities crackdown sparked a protest motion over the summer time by Iranian girls who photographed themselves with no headband and posted the images on social media.
Amini, a Kurdish woman from western Iran, had been visiting Tehran together with her brother when she was arrested, her mom stated. It was not clear what about her apparel had attracted police scrutiny, however she was detained as quickly as she exited a Tehran metro station.
“My son begs them not to,” the mom stated. “He says, ‘we are strangers in Tehran, we don’t know anyone, don’t take her,’” the mom stated. “But they beat up my son and take my daughter.”
A video carried by Iranian media outlets Friday purported to point out Amini within the police station. In the video, which was edited, she may be seen in a big corridor crammed with girls, sitting for a second, then approaching one other woman who seems to be an authority determine and gestures towards Amini’s garments, touching her headband earlier than strolling away. Amini can then be seen placing her palms to her face, shortly earlier than collapsing onto a chair.
Pictures of Amini within the hospital, intubated, circulated extensively on social media, frightening anguished reactions from activists, celebrities and reformist political figures. In one submit, Asghar Farhadi, a distinguished Iranian filmmaker, wrote: “We are pretending to be asleep at the face of this never-ending oppression. We are all partners in this crime.”
Following her loss of life, safety forces clashed with individuals in entrance of Tehran’s Kasra Hospital, within the north of the capital, the place Amini was handled, in accordance with movies posted on social media. Some movies additionally confirmed protesters close by at Argentina Square, chanting towards Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Khamenei is a killer; his government is invalid,” they chanted.
Babak Dehghanpisheh in Phoenix contributed to this report.
