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IRANIAN police fired tear gas at protesters on Saturday during a rally following the funeral ceremony for a young woman who died while in police custody in Tehran earlier this week, the Fars news agency reported.
The police said that 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was detained on Tuesday after Iran's so-called “morality police” found fault with her headscarf, had died of a heart attack.
The police released CCTV footage from the police station, which claim shows the moment Ms Amini collapsed. A relative has said she had no history of heart disease.
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
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
