Iran "bears responsibility" for Jina Mahsa Amini's "unlawful death" in 2022 that ignited nationwide protests, a UN report said Friday.
The pronouncement came from a report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, which said that Tehran used "unnecessary and disproportionate use of lethal force" to repel protestors in the aftermath of the death.
Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in September 2022 after being detained by Iran's morality police for alleged "improper" wear of her hijab.
The UN report rejected Iran's claims that she died from a medical condition from her childhood, saying that "based on the evidence, alleged complications arising from Ms. Amini's surgery in childhood can be excluded as the immediate cause of her death."
It said the mission "established the existence of evidence of trauma to Ms. Amini's body, inflicted while in the custody of the morality police," adding that she was subject to "physical violence that led to her death." "On that basis, the State bears responsibility for her unlawful death," the report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council said.
