Iran: Mahsa Amini's family rejects official medical report on her death
Relatives of Mahsa Amini claim that the young woman was beaten at the time of her arrest and they reject the official medical report on her death.
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In Iran, it has been more than a month since angry demonstrations broke out following the death of Mahsa Amini, this young woman who died on September 16, after being arrested by the morality police.
This Thursday, his family rejected the official medical report established after the death of Mahsa Amini.
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Relatives of Mahsa Amini, who died on September 16, claim that the young woman was beaten at the time of her arrest.
A few weeks later, when the tragedy had already sparked demonstrations across the country, a report by the Iranian forensic organization dated October 7 concluded that the victim had not died from blows to the head or vital organs, but that her death was related to surgery on a brain tumor when Mahsa Amini was 8 years old.
It is this version that the parents of the victim reject.
The family's lawyers called for "
a re-examination of the cause of death
" and to this end asked the courts to "
choose five specialists (including neurosurgeon and cardiologist) from a list of ten doctors selected by Mahsa Amini's parents
".
The defense must be able "to
obtain clarification on how the investigation was conducted and on the role of the person or persons involved in the arrest of Mahsa and his transfer to the vice squad headquarters, in order to be able to to defend the rights of the parents and (...) remove the uncertainties about the cause of
death”, indicated Master Nikbakht, one of the lawyers for the parents of Mahsa Amini.
Mahsa Amini was "
in perfect health
"
On September 19, Amjad Amini, the young woman's father, assured the Fars agency that his daughter was "
in perfect health
".
And at the end of September, Master Nikbakht, had indicated that the Amini family had filed a complaint against
the police officers
who had arrested the young girl.
It is therefore up to the Iranian justice to decide when the death of Mahsa Amini has triggered a
period of trouble and violence
.
According to Amnesty International, at least 23 children were killed in the crackdown on protests.
This Thursday, an Iranian teachers' union reported the case of a 15-year-old teenager, Asra Panahi, beaten to death by plainclothes police on the grounds of her school, in the northwest of the country.
The union calls on the Iranian authorities to stop killing innocent protesters while hundreds of other protesters, including women, have been arrested at the same time.
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