What happened to Mahsa/Zhina Amini?
In September 2022 Mahsa/Zhina Amini,
a young woman from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, visited Tehran with her brother.
She was stopped and arrested by Iran’s “morality” police (gasht-e ershad), who routinely arbitrarily detain women who do not comply with the country’s abusive and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws.
Eyewitnesses said that police
pushed her into a van and beat her, taking her to Vozara detention centre in Tehran. Mahsa/Zhina Amini and her brother were told that she was being transferred to Vozara for an “educational” class
aimed at “reforming” the behaviour of women and girls who violate the country’s rigid Islamic dress code. Her brother was also beaten when he protested.
Hours after her arrest, credible reports arose that
the “morality” police had subjected her to torture and other ill-treatment inside the police van, including through beatings to her head. She fell into a coma, and was transferred in an ambulance to Kasra hospital in Tehran.
She died in custody three days later in hospital, on 16 September 2022.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/09/what-happened-to-mahsa-zhina-amini/