#Watch: How 16,000 women are brutalised on Iran roads by hijab police

Tehran: Custodial death of a 22-year-woman on Friday who had suffered severe head injuries while being in the custody of Iran’s Hijab police has incited nationwide protests by women in Iran against the ‘Moral policing’ of the authorities.

Ever since the news of Mahsa Amini’s hospitalisation from a detention centre in Northern Tehran within two hours of her arrest broke, hundreds of social media posts started appearing with #MahsaAmini and received wide reactions, said reports.

Police however, denied the allegations of woman getting hared in custody.

The deceased, Mahsa Amini, 22, was seen unconscious and bleeding from her right ear in a photo of her lying on a hospital bed. After this, several people including Mahdiar Saeedian, editor of Health Magazine pointed out social media that the reason for her unconscious state is head injury and not a brain stroke because that never causes bleeding from ear.

The young girl, who is originally from Saqqez in the Kurdistan province, was detained by hijab enforcement authorities while riding in her brother’s automobile to visit their family in the capital. Islamic religious police informed her brother that she would be taken to the prison facility for a brief lecture about the Islamic dress code, the hijab, and would be soon freed.

However, she went to hospital after that where she succumbed to head unjuries two days later on Friday. Angry over her death women marched out of their homes to protest against the atrocities they are facing by the moral police.

An international journalist posted a video on Saturday which showed police’s behaviour with the protesting women. His tweet is embedded below:

⚠️ Disturbing Scenes from #Iran