Protests enter third day after death in custody of Kurdish woman accused of breaking strict hijab rules
The head of Iran’s morality police has reportedly been suspended from his post as protests swept acrossfor a third day over the killing of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who was detained by the police after being accused of not wearing the hijab appropriately.
Her father has always denied she suffered any such condition, effectively accusing the police of a cover-up. Several hundred people marched down a central street in Tehran on Monday night, including women who took off their hijabs, the ISNA news agency reported. Police responded with baton charges and teargas.Speaking at a press conference, the Greater Tehran police commander, Hossein Rahimi, said Amini was stopped by the morality police, known as “Gasht-e Ershad”, while walking in a park because her hijab was “inappropriate”.
Protesters threw rocks at security forces in the town of Divandarreh in Kurdistan, a video posted on Twitter by Kurdish rights group Hengaw showed. A widely followed Iranian Twitter account that focuses on protests in Iran said shopkeepers had gone on strike in Kurdish cities. Police accused her of not complying with the country’s hijab regulations and took her to a police station, telling her family she would be released after a “re-education” session.
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