Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in police custody has prompted mass protests in Iran, was “tortured and insulted” before she died, her cousin has said.
In an exclusive interview with Sky News, Erfan Mortezaei told Sky News about what happened to his cousin and how she has become the “voice of the anger of the Iranian people”.
He called on the international community to hold the Iranian regime responsible for her death.
He is the first member of Miss Amini’s family to speak to Western media since her death in police custody in Tehran on 16 September.
In the hours before she died, the 22-year-old had been detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely.
Outcry over her death has boiled over into some of the most serious protests in the country for years, with dozens of people killed as authorities seek to clamp down on unrest.
Mr Mortezaei is a political activist and Peshmerga fighter living in Iraq near the Iranian border.
Speaking to Sky News in Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, he said Miss Amini had gone shopping in Tehran with relatives including her brother, Ashkan.
He said they were confronted by the morality police: “When they saw Mahsa and others they decided her hijab was not correct.
"Ashkan tried to explain to them they were not in their home city, and were strangers in Tehran, so please take that into consideration and pleaded not to be taken away.
"In the struggle the police officers pepper-sprayed Ashkan in the face and forced Mahsa into the van and take her to the morality police station.”
Mr Mortezaei said a witness who was in the van has told the family what happened next.
“During the journey to the police station she was tortured and insulted,” he said.
After arriving at the police station Miss Amini began to lose her vision and fainted.
He said it took 30 minutes for ambulance workers to reach her and an hour and a half before she got to hospital.
“There is a report from Kasra hospital [in Tehran] that says effectively by the time she reached the hospital she was already dead from a medical point of view.
"She suffered a concussion from a blow to the head.”
Credit: @nazriahi on IG
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In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.
Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.
I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.
tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.
It is Kana Watanabe fight week people
The “islamic” republic of Iran shot people of Baluchistan as they had gathered for their Friday prayers. 62 people have died so far. Happy martyrdom to them.
I often get messages from teens living with their abusive parents telling me about how terrifying it is for them to even look at my blog in case their parent finds out. I was a teenager before social networking on the internet. Honestly, when I was a teenager there was barely an internet yet. So, I don’t know how people protect themselves but I feel like probably there are ways. If you know please do share! A lot of people would find it helpful.
The childcare system of a contemporary hunter-gatherer community suggests a major pitfall of the nuclear family, and it could hint at why so many parents in wealthy, Western nations feel burned out. A team of researchers, led by evolutionary anthropologist Nikhil Chaudhary from the University of Cambridge, argues that children may be "evolutionarily primed" to expect more attention and care than just two parents can provide. Investigating the culture of Mbendjele hunter-gatherers, who live in the northern rainforests of the Republic of Congo and subsist on hunting, fishing, gathering, and honey collecting, researchers found a widespread caregiving network. Among 18 infants and toddlers in this community, researchers noticed that each child receives, on average, nine hours of attentive care and physical contact each day, usually from around 10 individuals, but sometimes from more than 20.
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One of the Youtube comments on a Video of the Iranian Revolution. Most Likely from an Iranian Woman.
"We keep saying basic human rights,but I don't think the non iranian truely understand what we mean... it's the right to :
eat/drink whatever you want
Read/watch/write whatever you want
Have an opinion,and express it in any shape or form that you want
Check into a hotel or travel an unmarried woman to wherever you want
Practice whatever religion you want
Study whatever subject you want
Date/marry whomever you want
Own a freakin dog as a pet if you want
Wear whatever you want
These are BASIC human rights... that Iranians don't have and get arrested for on a daily basis, tourtued and killed for the last 43 years."
I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."
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Like. If you read “you can’t change your sex” but hear ‘your sex defines how you must live your life’ that’s a problem you need to deal with because male and female aren’t lifestyles