Hana; Mehsa Amini (Zhina), a 22-year-old girl from Saqqez, who was beaten by Tehran Irshad patrol agents on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, and went into a coma, died at noon today, Friday, September 16, due to the severity of her injuries in Kasarai Hospital
. Zhina Amini, who had traveled to Tehran for fun with her family, was arrested on Tuesday near Tehran's Haqqani highway by Irshad patrol officers for the crime of not wearing a proper Hijab, and they forcibly took her into the Irshad patrol Van and transferred her to the "Vezara" detention center. Zhina Amini was beaten on the way to the detention center while she was being detained, and after hitting her head with a baton, she suffered brain death and finally died after 3 days in a coma on Friday.
The death of Mehsa (Zhina) Amini has caused many reactions and in protest of the killing of this young Kurdish girl, the Center for the Cooperation of Kurdistan Parties of Iran has called for a general strike in Kurdistan for Monday, September 19. Also, in a joint statement, civil and environmental institutions and organizations in Saqqez strongly condemned this act and demanded the investigation and trial of the perpetrators and commanders of this intentional murder. In Sanandaj, the teachers' association condemned the torture and murder of Zhina Amini in their statements.