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A 14-year-old Iranian girl was allegedly raped and killed for removing her hijab at school.
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The New York Times reported that the woman, identified as Masoomeh, was from a poor neighborhood in Tehran and took off her headscarf in protest at school.
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He was reportedly identified by the school’s cameras and arrested. She was later treated at a hospital for “severe vaginal tears,” The Times reported, citing the Iranian Center for Human Rights, a New York-based watchdog.
The report also stated that the woman was dead and her mother was missing.
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 was under the surveillance of Gasht-e-Ershad, the Persian name for the famous morality police for “improper wearing of hijab”.
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The protests have spread to more than 140 cities and towns. Reports indicate that at least 700 people have died as a result of the government crackdown, including dozens of children, according to FOX.
“In a movement where women are at the center, a barbaric and violent regime has used rape as a weapon to further demoralize its people. Women have been beaten in court, for dancing, for singing, for showing some hair, and now they are being violated in the worst possible way before their lives are stolen,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Daftari. According to the Foreign Office, in a statement.
“It makes you wonder where the so-called champions of women’s rights are around the world, and why they are not doing more for the women of Iran. It’s a shame that until last week these brutal dictators sat on the world’s highest commission for women’s rights. How long will Iranian women have to endure this brutality for the leaders to condemn this regime?