Mahsa Amini
[Center for Human Rights in Iran]
IRANIAN human rights campaigners condemned today the death of a 22-year-old woman while in detention, calling for urgent action.
Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she was detained by Iran’s morality police last week for allegedly breaking the rules on women’s public dress code.
Prison security forces claimed that Ms Amini suddenly collapsed from a heart attack while receiving education on hijab rules.
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction
The Islamic Republic is attempting to deflect from its own failures with a scapegoating campaign against vulnerable and impoverished migrants, writes JAMSHID AHMADI
In the second of two articles, STEVE BISHOP looks at how the 1979 revolution’s aims are obfuscated to create a picture where the monarchists are the opposition to the theocracy, not the burgeoning workers’ and women’s movement on the streets of Iran