Raisi Orders Interior Minister to Investigate Following Mahsa Amini’s Brain Death
Three days after Mahsa Amini’s brain death in the custody of the Morality Police, Iran’s president ordered the Interior Minister on Friday, September 16, to investigate the matter.
According to Iranian domestic media reports, following Ibrahim Raisi’s order, the Interior Minister appointed his deputy for security and law enforcement to handle the case.
Mahsa [Jina] Amini was a 22-year-old girl who had come to Tehran with her family from Sanandaj to visit relatives. After being arrested by the Morality Police and transferred to the police detention center on Wednesday, September 14, she fell into a coma due to beatings inflicted by law enforcement officers.
The circulation of images of Ms. Amini on a hospital bed on social networks has triggered widespread reactions from social media users as well as responses from prominent domestic and international figures regarding the issue and the violent treatment of women over mandatory hijab in Iran.
In the latest reactions, Asghar Farhadi, a renowned Iranian filmmaker, wrote on an Instagram post: “Since yesterday when I read your news, I have been restless. I am disgusted, this time with myself. You are lying in a hospital bed, but you are more awake than all of us, and we are all in a coma.”
He continued: “We have put ourselves to sleep in the face of this endless injustice. We are complicit in this crime.”
Mahmoud Sadeghi, a former parliamentary representative, also wrote on Friday in a Twitter post: “The Supreme Leader of the Revolution, who rightly condemned the police in the death of George Floyd, what do they have to say about the police’s treatment of Mahsa Amini?”
Ali Kuhani, an American journalist, also responded to news of Mahsa Amini’s brain death in a Twitter post, “calling for justice for Mahsa and an end to the oppressive regime.”
