Raisi's order to the Minister of Interior following Mahsa Amini's brain death
Three days after Mahsa Amini's brain death in Ershad police custody, the Iranian President ordered the Interior Minister to look into the matter on Friday, September 15.
According to Iranian domestic media reports, following the order of Ebrahim Raisi, the Interior Minister has appointed his deputy for security and law enforcement to handle this case.
Mahsa [Zina] Amini, a 22-year-old girl who had come to Tehran from Saqqez with her family to visit relatives, fell into a coma after being arrested by the Ershad patrol and transferred to the Vazra detention center on Wednesday, September 13, as a result of being beaten by "law enforcement officers."
The publication of Ms. Amini's picture on a hospital bed on social media, in addition to the widespread reaction of social media users, has so far led to the reaction of well-known domestic and foreign figures to this issue and the violent treatment of women over the mandatory hijab in Iran.
In the latest reactions, Asghar Farhadi, a well-known Iranian cinema director, wrote in an Instagram post: "I've been restless since I read your news yesterday. I'm disgusted, this time with myself. You're lying on a hospital bed, but you're the most awake, and we're all in a coma."
He added: "We have lulled ourselves to sleep in the face of this endless cruelty. We are complicit in this crime."
Former MP Mahmoud Sadeghi also wrote in a Twitter post on Friday: "What does the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, who rightly condemned the American police in the death of George Floyd, say about the treatment of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian police?"
American journalist Eli Cohanim also reacted to the news of Mahsa Amini's brain death in a post on Twitter, calling for "justice for Mahsa and an end to the oppressive regime."
