Tehran: Amid ongoing protests in Iran, Mahsa Amini’s father has refused to permit Islamic prayers over his daughter’s frame.
“Your Islam denounced her, now you’ve come to wish over her? Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? You killed her for 2 strands of hair! … Take your Islam and go,” stated Mahsa Amini’s father in a viral video.
Father of Mahsa Amini refuses to allow Islamic prayers over body of Mahsa. He's says to the mullah who's praying over her:
"Your Islam denounced her, now you've come to pray over her? Aren't you ashamed of urself? You killed her for 2 strands of hair! … Take your Islam and go." pic.twitter.com/Pzqn92Z2c2— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) September 20, 2022
Who is Mahsa Amini?
Over the beyond few days, protests have erupted throughout Iran after a 22-year-antique girl died at the same time as being held through the morality police for violating the country’s strictly enforced Islamic get dressed code. Anger has visible girls put off their obligatory headscarves, or hijabs, from protecting their hair after the demise of Mahsa Amini, who become picked up through morality police over her allegedly free headscarf.
Several films have emerged on line displaying girls twirling them overhead, chanting. Others have burned them or reduce off locks in their personal hair in rage.
Amini’s demise has angered many Iranians, specifically the younger, who’ve come to look it as a part of the Islamic Republic’s heavy-passed policing of dissent and the morality police’s an increasing number of violent remedy of younger girls.
Protests flip violent
According to reports, the protesters clashed with police at a number of the places. Not simply that, thick clouds of tear fueloline have been visible withinside the capital of Tehran. Meanwhile, motorcycle-driving volunteers acknowledged as “Basij” in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard have chased and overwhelmed demonstrators — as they have got in different protests in latest years over water rights, the country’s cratering financial system and different motives which have been violently suppressed.
Yet a few demonstrators nonetheless chant “demise to the dictator”, concentrated on each Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s rule and Iran’s theocracy, no matter the risk of arrest, imprisonment or even the opportunity of a demise sentence.
Why girls are protesting in Iran?
On thirteen September, Iran’s morality police arrested Mahsa Amini in Tehran, in which she become touring from her homeland withinside the country’s western Kurdish region. She collapsed at a police station and died 3 days later. She become detained through the police for sporting her hijab too loosely. Iran calls for girls to put on the headband in a manner that absolutely covers their hair while in public.
Only Afghanistan beneathneath Taliban rule now actively enforces a comparable law — even ultraconservative Saudi Arabia has dialled returned its enforcement over latest years.
The police denied that Amini become mistreated and said that she died of a coronary heart attack. President Ebrahaim Raisi has promised an investigation. However, Amini’s own circle of relatives stated she had no records of coronary heart hassle and they have been averted from seeing her frame earlier than she become buried. Protests erupted after her funeral withinside the Kurdish metropolis of Saqez on Saturday, and fast unfold to different components of the country, inclusive of Tehran.