Mahsa Amini

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei refrained on Wednesday from commenting on ongoing protests in his first public appearance since anti-regime.

[Middle East](/News/middle-east) Police deny the allegations. Protests erupted across Iran after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, was pronounced dead on Friday. Some observers had expected Khamenei to comment on the ongoing protests in the country. “Sleep, old man, the people are awake.” The speech was broadcast on state TV.

Iran's morality police arrested Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdistan native, on 13 September in Tehran for "wearing unsuitable attire".

A human rights organisation reported that the death toll had reached six people killed and dozens injured by Wednesday. It is some of Iran's worst unrest since street clashes last year over water shortages. In the meantime, demonstrations over Amini's death have also been organised by the Iranian diaspora in Turkey, Switzerland and Germany, as well as in front of the UN headquarters in New York. The country's former President Hassan Rouhani eased the enforcement of the rules and openly accused the morality police of being too aggressive, leading to its chief promising to stop the arrests of women for violating the dress code in 2017. Amini's father rejected this, stating she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and reiterated that he held the police responsible for her death. Protests continued throughout Iran for the fifth night in a row over the death of a young woman said to have been severely beaten by the morality police tasked with enforcing a strict dress code for women.

The tragic death of a 22-year-old arrested by morality police has emboldened those seeking freedom.

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We'd like to hear from people in Iran how they feel about the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody.

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Last week the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by morality police in Tehran for “unsuitable attire”, unleashed severe public unrest.

Her father said she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police responsible for her death. The police have denied harming her.Her father said she had no health problems and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police responsible for her death. Meanwhile, in the West, the hijab is encouraged as a symbol of diversity.— Andy Ngô ��️�� (@MrAndyNgo) In this incident, four other police officers were injured,” the IRNA news agency said. Protests erupted five days earlier after the death of a woman in police custody. Her name was Masha 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.

Internet blackouts and Instagram blocks also reported amid anger after 22-year-old woman's death in custody.

During her detention, she said, she “had suffered physical and psychological torture that remains with me to this day … In a CBS interview, Raisi claimed further investigations were required to determine if the Holocaust happened. I still believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this goal.” On Wednesday, the country’s supreme leader gave a televised speech in which he did not mention the protests but warned how young people should not “fall for western powers’ deception”. And a Kurdish human rights group, Hengaw, said two more people had been killed by police, raising the claimed death toll since Amini’s death to six. No meeting is planned between Raisi and the US president, Joe Biden.

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).

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.