DUBAI: Iranian authorities have denied reports that a 16-year-old girl was killed by security forces during protests ignited by the death of a woman in police custody, Iranian media reported on Friday as she committed suicide by falling from a roof.
Social media reports and rights group Amnesty International have said Sarina Esmailzadeh The 22-year-old was killed by security forces after he was hit on the head with sticks during protests over his death. mahsa amini Morality in police custody.
Earlier this week officials gave a similar cause of death – a fall from a roof – to a 17-year-old evacuee. sugaryActivists who say he was killed in Tehran while demonstrating over Amini’s death.
Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested, posing the biggest challenge to Iran’s clerical leadership in protests across the country.
Women have played a major role in unfurling and burning the headscarf. High school girls also participated.
The chief justice of the province of Alborz said preliminary investigations suggested his death was a suicide by falling from the roof of a five-story building, the semi-official ISNA news agency said.
Chief Justice Hossein Fazeli Herikandi said the claims in the opposition media about his death were “false”. “Based on her mother’s account, Esmailzadeh had a history of suicide attempts,” he said. He said the police had received information about his death on September 24.
Reuters could not reach his family for comment.
Amnesty International said in a September 30 report that she was one of at least 52 people killed by security forces between September 19 and September 25, which said Esmailzadeh “was badly beaten in the head with sticks”. later died”.
A video of Esmaeilzadeh smiling and listening to music has been viewed nearly 147,000 times on the 1500tasvir Twitter account.
amini On 13 September he was arrested in Tehran for “inappropriate dress”. Officials have said he suffered a heart attack after being taken to a station to be “educated”.
Her family has denied that she has any heart problems. Her father has said that she had bruises on her feet, and blamed the police for her death.
The government has ordered an inquiry.
Earlier this week, state media said a judicial case had been opened into Shakrami’s death, which officials claim had nothing to do with the unrest, and that she had fallen from a roof and into her body. There was no bullet wound. Activists say he was killed during a demonstration in Tehran.
Social media reports and rights group Amnesty International have said Sarina Esmailzadeh The 22-year-old was killed by security forces after he was hit on the head with sticks during protests over his death. mahsa amini Morality in police custody.
Earlier this week officials gave a similar cause of death – a fall from a roof – to a 17-year-old evacuee. sugaryActivists who say he was killed in Tehran while demonstrating over Amini’s death.
Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed, hundreds injured and thousands arrested, posing the biggest challenge to Iran’s clerical leadership in protests across the country.
Women have played a major role in unfurling and burning the headscarf. High school girls also participated.
The chief justice of the province of Alborz said preliminary investigations suggested his death was a suicide by falling from the roof of a five-story building, the semi-official ISNA news agency said.
Chief Justice Hossein Fazeli Herikandi said the claims in the opposition media about his death were “false”. “Based on her mother’s account, Esmailzadeh had a history of suicide attempts,” he said. He said the police had received information about his death on September 24.
Reuters could not reach his family for comment.
Amnesty International said in a September 30 report that she was one of at least 52 people killed by security forces between September 19 and September 25, which said Esmailzadeh “was badly beaten in the head with sticks”. later died”.
A video of Esmaeilzadeh smiling and listening to music has been viewed nearly 147,000 times on the 1500tasvir Twitter account.
amini On 13 September he was arrested in Tehran for “inappropriate dress”. Officials have said he suffered a heart attack after being taken to a station to be “educated”.
Her family has denied that she has any heart problems. Her father has said that she had bruises on her feet, and blamed the police for her death.
The government has ordered an inquiry.
Earlier this week, state media said a judicial case had been opened into Shakrami’s death, which officials claim had nothing to do with the unrest, and that she had fallen from a roof and into her body. There was no bullet wound. Activists say he was killed during a demonstration in Tehran.