Mahsa Aminis kusin i Irak: Familjen tar emot dödshot
Familjen till den 22-åriga kurdiskan Mahsa Amini har tagit emot dödshot och varnats för att delta i demonstrationer, skriver BBC.
Den unga kvinnan har blivit en symbol för protesterna för kvinnors rättigheter och mot regimen i Iran. Hon dog efter att ha gripits av moralpolisen i Teheran då det påstods att hon bar sin slöja felaktigt.
BBC:s korrespondent Anna Foster har träffat Mahsa Aminis kusin Erfan Mortezai i irakiska Kurdistan. Erfan själv ingår i Peshmergastyrkan och säger att regimen felaktigt anklagat henne för att ha tränat Jina, som är Mahsa Aminis kurdiska namn. Hon säger också att familjen väljer att inte prata med människorättsorganisationer eller aktörer utanför Iran som en följd av det hårda trycket från iranska myndigheter.
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Mahsa Amini
Wikipedia (en)
On 16 September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی), also known as Jina Amini or Zhina Amini (Persian: ژینا امینی; Kurdish: ژینا ئەمینی, romanized: Jîna Emînî), died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards—too loosely, showing some hair. Police, after transferring her to hospital, said she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma. Eyewitnesses, including women who were detained with Amini, said she was severely beaten, and that she died as a result of police brutality. These assertions, in addition to leaked medical scans, led independent observers to believe Amini had had a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.Amini's death resulted in a series of protests, described by CNN as more widespread than the protests in 2009, 2017, and 2019, and by The New York Times as the largest Iranian protests since at least 2009. Some female demonstrators removed their hijab or publicly cut their hair as acts of protest. By October 2022, Iran Human Rights reported that at least 185 people were killed by security forces confronting protests across the country; Amnesty International reported that Iranian security forces were, in some cases, firing into groups with live ammunition, and in other cases were killing protesters by beating them with batons.
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