NEWS: Young Iranian woman dead after falling into a coma while in the custody of Iran's morality police - Iranian media
A 22-year-old Iranian woman has died after being arrested by Iran's ??morality police?? on Wednesday, according to the Iran's semi-official Etemad Online website quoting her uncle. Iranian State TV confirmed the death of Mahsa Amini in rolling news text without giving details, according to Reuters.
Last Tuesday evening, Mahsa and her family who had travelled from Iran's Kurdistan region to visit relatives in the capital, Tehran, were stopped by a patrol of Iran's ??morality police,?? a dedicated unit that enforces strict dress codes for women in Iran, such as wearing the compulsory headscarf. According to IranWire, human rights activists who have spoken to the family say the police grabbed Amini and forced her inside a police vehicle. Her brother, Kiarash, attempted to intervene and was told his sister was being taken to the police station for one hour of "re-education," IranWire said.
Kiarash says never saw his sister awake again. While he was waiting outside the police station for his sister to be released an ambulance pulled up and discretely took his sister to the hospital. In an interview with IranWire, Kiarash said he was told she had suffered a heart attack or a stroke while in the police station and that she was in a coma.
On Thursday, Tehran police confirmed that Amini had suffered a "heart attack" following her arrest on Tuesday and explained, "the woman was sent to a Greater Tehran police precinct for guidance and education when suddenly, in the presence of other people, she had a heart attack."
Amini's family have questioned the version of events given by police, saying she was a normal healthy 22-year-old with no pre-existing heart conditions. ??There were only two hours between her arrest and being taken to hospital,?? Kiarash told IranWire.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into the circu
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