A 14-year-old girl in Iran has reportedly been raped and killed for removing her hijab at school amid ongoing protests rocking the Islamic Republic.
The New York Times reports that the teenager, identified as Masoomeh, was from a poor neighborhood in Tehran and removed her headscarf at school in protest.
FILE: In this still image from video, people are blocking an intersection during a protest to mark 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, whose tragedy sparked Iran’s biggest anti-government movement in more than a decade, in Tehran. , Iran, Wednesday, October 26, 2022.
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School cameras identified the girl and she was arrested. She was later treated at a hospital for “severe vaginal tears,” The Times reported, citing the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based watchdog organization.
The girl later died and her mother, who wanted to report the rape and death of her daughter, has disappeared.
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His death comes amid months of widespread protests in Iran, sparked by the death in police custody of Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022.
Amini had been in the custody of Gasht-e-Ershad, the Persian name for the notorious morality police for “improper wearing of hijab”.
FILE: Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by morality police, in Tehran, on October 1, 2022.
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The protests have spread to more than 140 cities and towns. Reports indicate that at least 700 people have died due to the government crackdown, including dozens of children.
“In a movement in which women are at the center, the barbaric and violent regime has used rape as a weapon to further demolish the morals of its people. They have attacked women in court, for dancing, for singing, for showing some hair, and now they are raping them in the worst possible way before stealing their lives,” Lisa Daftari, Foreign Desk editor-in-chief said in a statement.
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“It makes one wonder where the so-called champions of women’s rights around the world are and why they aren’t doing more for the women of Iran. It’s mind boggling that until last week these brutal dictators were sitting on top of the world”. main committee for women’s rights. How long will the women of Iran have to endure this brutality before the leaders come forward to condemn this regime?”
Fox News’ Peter Aitken and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
