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Amjad Amini, Mahsa Amini's Father. Amini's father is an employee in a government organization and her mother is a housewife. [49] Her mother was an active member of the Parents and Teachers Association for three years in Shahrak Elementary School, Hijab Secondary School and Taleghani High School. She had one younger brother, Kiarash (Ashkan). [53]
Mahsa Amini, also Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, was arrested by the Guidance Patrol on 14 September 2022 because of an "improper hijab." The police were accused of beating her and inflicting a fatal head injury, [ 39 ] after a CT scan confirmed that Amini had sustained head injuries, a claim denied by Tehran police. [ 39 ]
The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards. The Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma before being transferred to a ...
Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died Sept. 16, 2022, in a hospital after her arrest three days earlier by the country’s morality police for allegedly not adhering to the government ...
The death on Sept. 16 of Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd arrested for allegedly flouting the Islamic Republic's mandatory dress code, sparked months of anti-government protests that spiralled into the ...
Protests have erupted across Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian who died in police custody earlier this month. Amini was arrested for improperly wearing her hijab in ...
The first execution of the Mahsa Amini protests was on 8 December 2022, when Iran executed 23-year-old Mohsen Shekari, accused of blocking a road and using a machete to wound a police officer, on charges of moharebeh. [215] [216] Iran Human Rights director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam called Shekari's trial a "show trial without any due process".
Protests began soon after the Sept. 16 death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested by morality police three days earlier for allegedly violating Iran's mandatory Islamic ...