Claims by Iranian officials that a female doctor who died with unusual injuries committed “suicide” has sparked suspicions of yet another death in custody.
The family of Dr. Aida Rostami were contacted by the local police the day after her disappearance, December 12, a source close to the family told Iran Wire Friday and that she had died in a car accident. The police said the body was at the morgue of Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in the south of the capital Tehran.
Iranian doctor Aida Rostami was tortured and murdered by the Islamic regime for treating wounded protesters.
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The authorities insisted, when they handed over the body to the family, that they should bury her in their hometown of Gorgan in northeastern Iran. According to the source, the family first resisted the pressure but later accepted the request, as their daughter had previously expressed a desire to be buried in her hometown if she ever died.
The source also said medical examiners told the family, apparently in confidence, that she was not killed in a car accident, as the police had told the family, but that they were ordered not to reveal the true cause of death.
According to Iran International, Dr. Rostami’s body had one eye removed and half of her face crushed. Her family received the body a day after she was arrested. Sources close to the family have said when the they insisted to view the body, they saw various injuries and bruises, including on her genitals, and broken arms. The lids of one of the eyes of the young doctor were stitched together, apparently to conceal the removal of the eyeball.
Judiciary authorities are now offering a completely different account of the circumstances of the young doctor’s death and have arrested a young man who they claim is suspected of throwing Dr. Rostami to her death from a pedestrian overpass after a quarrel over their relationship.
State media on Sunday published a video of the unnamed man who claimed Rostami was his girlfriend and that she had thrown herself from a pedestrian bridge after he left her and that he returned to find her body on the ground.
Iranians have been protesting for months following the death of Mahsa Amini. Many of them have sustained injuries from security forces.
However, they avoid hospitals for fear of getting detained, tortured, prosecuted, or killed. In response, a few brave medics risk their lives to help injured protesters in their homes and offices.
Dr. Rostami was one of them. On December 12, 2022, she was taking care of several wounded protesters when she ran out of medical items like sterile gas.
She left a protester’s house to get the supplies, but she was never seen until the next day. A local police station called the family and informed them that Rostami died in a car crash the previous night.
The police also told the family to retrieve her body at a morgue.
An IranWire source said: “The medical examiner told her family that they were ordered not to reveal the true cause of Aida’s death. They said that she did not die in a car accident. They killed her.”
The family had to insist before security officers allowed them to see the body. The police also told the family to retrieve her body at a morgue.
An IranWire source said: “The medical examiner told her family that they were ordered not to reveal the true cause of Aida’s death. They said that she did not die in a car accident. They killed her.”
The family had to insist before security officers allowed them to see the body.
The source added, “It is not possible that when you are driving, and you get an accident, both of your hands would break, your lower torso gets bruised, and your eye completely comes out.”
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