Mahsa Amini

Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

The death of Mahsa Amini in Iran following her arrest for alleged dress code violations is shocking. The use of violence in response to the expression of fundamental rights, by women or any other members of Iranian society, is wholly unjustifiable. Foreign Office Minister Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has issued a statement following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

Amini, 22, died Friday, several days after she was arrested in Tehran by the country's "morality police" for violating hijab laws. Her death has sparked ...

[In a tweet](https://twitter.com/USEnvoyIran/status/1570826454182797312?s=20&t=Nf3dGsvAl_GqLn4xfQoe0g) in response to Amini's death, Robert Malley, the U.S. [honor killings](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/middleeast/iran-honor-killing-romina-ashrafi-intl/index.html), continues in Iran, and the country's [laws do little to protect them](https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/gender-based-violence-iran), experts say. [ongoing protests](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%DB%8C&src=trend_click&vertical=trends) over Amini's death and another that essentially states, ["No to the Islamic Republic." But backers of the establishment have been blasting out their own hashtag: "My Iran." [reported](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62967381). said, adding that the morality police have recently stepped up street patrols. Police reject the allegations, saying Amini died after being taken to a hospital because she had a heart attack. [IRNA news agency](https://en.irna.ir/news/84889658/Iranian-police-releases-footage-of-young-woman-died-after-arrest). [said in a statement](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/09/mahsa-amini-acting-un-human-rights-chief-urges-impartial-probe-death-iran). [he said](https://web.archive.org/web/20220919025955/https:/www.president.ir/en/139571). [reported](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209165767). [Iran International](https://www.iranintl.com/en/202209172983).

The death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran's "morality police" has sparked demonstrations from the Kurdish west to the holy city ...

Another video from Rasht, also on the Caspian, shows a crowd of young men crowded around a police officer, who is wielding what appears to be a kind of stun gun. In a video from Kerman, in southeastern Iran, a young woman sitting on a utility box, surrounded by a cheering crowd, is seen removing her headscarf and cutting off her own hair. Many of the protests have been concentrated in the west, the poor, predominantly Kurdish region Amini’s family hails from. In a video from Qom, a center of religious scholarship, protesters march through the street, whistling, and some throw rocks. In those protests, like the ones now shaking the country, the authorities responded by cutting internet service and resorting in some cases to the use of deadly force, including live ammunition. Many were led by women, who burned their headscarves, cut their hair and chanted, “Death to the dictator.”

Iranian security forces are violently quashing largely peaceful protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death on 16 September, days after her violent arrest by ...

“Iran’s security forces will continue to feel emboldened to kill or injure protesters and prisoners, including women arrested for defying abusive compulsory veiling laws, if they are not held accountable. A journalist from Baneh similarly told Amnesty International: “Security forces directly shot people in their stomachs and backs at close range… An eyewitness reported seeing scores of arrested protesters in Kamyaran with fractured heads, noses or arms and bloodied bodies. Consistent eyewitness accounts and video footage leave no doubt that those firing weapons during the protests belonged to Iran’s security forces. Their urgent need for action was demonstrated most recently by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, and the barrage of gunfire unleashed on protesters which has left at least eight people dead and hundreds injured, Amnesty International said today. On 19 September, mass protests spread from Saqqez to other cities populated by Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority including Baneh, Dehgolan, Divandareh, Kamyaran, Mahabad, and Sanandaj. The source said security forces also fired birdshot at another young man, 22-year-old Parsa Sehat, who consequently lost sight in both eyes. Most of them were injured in their backs as they were running away.” Of these, at least four died from injuries sustained from security forces firing metal pellets at close range. Four other victims, Reza Lotfi and Foad Ghadimi in Dehgolan, Kurdistan province; Mohsen Mohammadi in Divandareh, Kurdistan province; and 16-year-old boy Zakaria Khial in Urumieh were killed. At least two other people have lost sight in one or both eyes. He has been given a platform on the world stage, despite credible evidence of his

Officials have claimed that Amini was detained for breaking the Iranian law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf and their limbs with loose ...

In the Iranian city of Kerman, where women are required to wear hijabs in public, many took to the streets on Tuesday to protest Amini’s death, and elsewhere women were seen [burning their hijabs](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/middleeast/iran-mahsa-amini-death-widespread-protests-intl-hnk/index.html) and chanting, “Women, life, freedom” and “Death to the dictator” (referring to Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader). [Protests](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/wave-protests-iran-reflects-seething-anger-regime-treats-women-rcna48643) have erupted outside the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, as well as in Tehran and beyond. Below, find all the details on who Amini was, why she was detained by the Iranian morality police, and how her death has sparked a wave of resistance (particularly among women) in Iran.

Nine people are said to have been killed in unrest triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

The internet service has already been disrupted in Kurdistan province, Tehran and other parts of the country for several days. But her family has said she was fit and healthy. She collapsed after being taken to a detention centre to be "educated". This video is from the southern island of Qeshm. The most popular social media platform there. She was visiting the capital Tehran with her family when she was arrested by morality police, who accused her of violating the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab and their arms and legs with loose clothing.