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Iran:Medical Student Commits Suicide after being Arrested

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Iran, Governance, Religion, Women & Gender

Kamangir reports [1] that Zahra Bani Amer ,a twenty-seven-year-old medical student, committed suicide in a prison in Hamedan Province, after she was arrested by the Sharia [2] Police.Zahra was arrested two days before because of “questions about marital status”. At the time she was accompanied by a boy.