Iran president says death in custody of Mahsa Amini must be investigated

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian and agencies

Iran president says death in custody of Mahsa Amini must be investigated

Ebrahim Raisi says he has contacted Kurdish woman’s family but laments western double standards on human rights

Patrick Wintour in New York and agencies
Fri 23 Sep 2022 10.58 BST
First published on Fri 23 Sep 2022 02.50 BST

The death in custody in Iran of a Kurdish woman that led to widespread protests must be “steadfastly” investigated, Iran’s president has said, as he lamented what he claimed were western “double standards” on human rights.

Ebrahim Raisi told a news conference on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York that the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police “must certainly be investigated”.

“I contacted her family at the very first opportunity and I assured them we would continue steadfastly to investigate that incident … Our utmost preoccupation is the safeguarding of the rights of every citizen.”

Of Amini’s death, he said authorities were doing what they needed to do and that responsibility now lay in the hands of the judiciary. He claimed the initial coroner’s investigations into the death of Amini showed she died from heart failure or a brain stroke, and not a physical beating by the morality police.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/iran-protests-2022-mahsa-amini-president-ebrahim-raisi-says-kurdish-woman-death-in-custody-must-be-investigated

[Walleye]

1. To other countries repressive government: Americans can be hypocrites

That does not excuse your human rights atrocities