Was Cerebral Hypoxia The Only Reason For Mahsa Amini’s Death?
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Alaina
- . October 7, 2022
- . Update: November 11, 2022 12:39 am
An Iranian coroner’s report has stated that the young Kurdish Iranian girl Mahsa Amini died of multiple organ failure that was caused by cerebral hypoxia.
The condition is caused due to lack of oxygen to the brain that could be triggered through any number of factors like drowning, strangling, choking, suffocation, cardiac arrest, head trauma, carbon monoxide poisoning, and complications of general anesthesia.
The young girl of 22 years died after being in custody with the Iranian moral police for a span of a week to 10 days, in which her family were not told of her whereabouts. She was later found and discovered to have gone into coma, possibly due to physical and mental torture meted on her due to the fact that she had not worn a hijab properly.
Her death has been linked to a brain tumor surgery she had at the age of eight and that she collapsed due to some underlying disease and not because there was any blow to her head.
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A report has said that she died, “due to the ineffective cardio-respiratory resuscitation in the first critical minutes, she suffered severe hypoxia and as a result, brain damage.” The findings included CT scans of the brain and lungs, an autopsy and pathological tests.
The police have denied she suffered any harm. They previously said she had suffered a heart attack after being taken to a station to be ‘educated.’ Her family denies that Amini had any heart problems that her lawyer has said that she died due to violence against her, something the authorities are clearly refusing to accept.
In the midst of the country fighting for the rights of slain Mahsa Amini, another young girl has gone missing. Nika Shakarami went missing from protests that were being staged for the murdered and dead Amini. The young girl went missing on September 20 and was found dead with her skull broken and disintegrated, according to confirmed sources.
Family has suspected violence meted over her by the Iranian police itself. The 16-year-old had last sent a message to her friend stating that she was running for her life from the armed security forces. Since then, she went missing for a period of 10 days with no news of her whereabouts.
She had been protesting against the death in custody of Ms. Amini who went into cardiac arrest after suspected mental and physical torture at the hands of Iranian moral police.
