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SULAIMANI — Human rights campaigners in Iran said a young woman from Kurdistan province is in critical condition in a coma after she was detained by morals police in Tehran,
Agence France Presse (AFP) said on Thursday (September 15).
Mahsa Amini, 22, from Saqqez, was visiting relatives in Tehran
when she was detained by police responsible for enforcing the Islamic dress
code in the country, Iran International news said.
Hengaw, an Iran-Kurdish human rights
organization based in Norway,
said Amini was badly beaten in the head by police. Amini's brother, Kiaresh, told Iran Wire news that police informed him Mahsa had
suffered a heart attack and a brain seizure, leaving her in a coma, according
to AFP.
Photos circulating on social media show her
hospitalized with a breathing tube.
According to Iran International, the country's security forces have stepped up pressure over Iran's conservative dress code, which mandates the wearing of hijab, following
campaigns against the enforcement by human rights activists.
(NRT Digital Media)