For nearly two weeks, Iran has been on fire.

Demonstrations follow one another in Tehran, in a broad movement for the liberation of women and protest against the regime.

The trigger was the death of Masha Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian girl.

Erfan Salih Mortezaee, his cousin living in Iraq, recounts the facts in detail, which he learned from a telephone call with Masha's mother after this disastrous September 13th.

The young woman was in Tehran for a family vacation before starting her university studies in the province of Western Azerbaijan.

Mahsa, her 17-year-old brother and other women in the family wanted to take a tour of the capital.

Coming out of the Haghani metro station, "the vice police stopped them, arresting Jhina and her relatives", says the cousin, involved in the Iranian Kurdish nationalist group Komala which fights against Iranian power, calling his cousin by her first name. Kurdish.

Clashes with the morality police

The younger brother tried to appease the police by explaining that they are "in Tehran for the first time" and "don't know the local traditions".

Nothing works.

"The policeman told him + we are going to take him on board, teach him the rules and teach him how to wear the hijab and how to dress +", adds the cousin, assuring that the young woman was "dressed like all women in Iran , and wore a hijab.

In Iran, women must cover their hair and body to below the knees.

But on a daily basis, a large number of them allow themselves certain freedoms – a scarf carelessly tied over their hair, for example.

“The police beat Jhina, they beat her in front of her brother, he is a witness”, insists Erfan Salih Mortezaee.

“They slapped her, with a stick they hit her on the hands, on the legs.

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Three days in a coma

They also sprayed pepper spray in her brother's face, to incapacitate him, before taking the women away in a vice squad van.

Direction their premises, rue Vezarat.

The beatings will continue inside the vehicle.

“When they hit her on the head with the stick, she lost consciousness.

After arriving at the station, it took another hour and a half before she was taken to hospital, according to her cousin.



After three days in a coma, he will be pronounced dead on September 16.

Also according to the mother's account reported by the cousin, the doctors at the hospital informed the family that their daughter "had received a violent blow to the head".

Authorities deny any involvement in Mahsa Amini's death.

But since then, Iranians have been demonstrating every night against his death.

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