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| birth_place = Tehran20071310df=yes}}| death_place = HamedanIran>Iranian| occupation = Medical doctor}}Zahra Bani Yaghoub (, also mentioned in the media as Zahra Bani Ameri;Kosoof – Arash Ashoorinia’s Photography – 23 November 2007 16 October 1980آفتاب – مرگ مشکوک پزشک جوان را پیگیری کنید – 13 October 2007) was an Iranian medical doctor. She died in a prison in Hamedan after she was arrested by the Guidance Patrol. The incident gained attention in the press due to the possible police involvement in her death.Seeking Justice for Zahra Bani Yaghoub

Career

Born in Tehran, Bani Yaghoub studied at Tehran University medical school and worked as a volunteer physician in Hamedan Province. Zahra Bani Yaghoub was a distinguished young medical doctor and had several recognitions including her top rank in nationwide university entrance examination. The police told her father: “Iran does not need such medical doctors.“gooya news :: politics : روايتی ديگر از مرگ زهرا بنی عامری، دکتر زهرا به قتل رسيده يا خودکشی کرده است؟ کانون زنان Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi has taken the case and is currently the official lawyer of Zahra Bani Yaghoub’s family.روزنامه سرمايه

Death

In 2007, Iranian police launched a “Public Security Plan and Moralization Campaign”. Many Iranian citizens including many women were arrested and questioned for “un-Islamic” behavior. That same year, Zahra was sitting on a park bench with her fiancé when Iranian police arrested the couple. This was considered by the Iranian judiciary to be a breach of modesty laws because the two were not yet married.BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=dX6M2iZpJUEC&pg=PT146, Iran: the Looming Crisis: Can the West live with Iran’s nuclear threat?, Emanuele, Ottolenghi, Emanuele Ottolenghi, 146, 2010, Profile Books, 9781847654571, They were taken to jail and held in separate cells, and Yaghoub died under custody the following day.NEWS,www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-brutal-morality-police-are-growing-in-power-warns-nobel-prize-winner-842090.html, Iran’s brutal morality police are growing in power, warns Nobel Prize-winner,web.archive.org/web/20190404132840/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-brutal-morality-police-are-growing-in-power-warns-nobel-prize-winner-842090.html, 4 April 2019, Anne, Penketh, 7 June 2008, 25 September 2022, Independent (newspaper), Independent, Iranian officials claimed that the victim committed suicide by hanging herself.NEWS,www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/11/27bad7ce-e7c1-4116-a1d2-b60171cc9ded.html, Iran: Female Doctor’s Prison Death Causes Public Outcry, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Farangis, Najibullah, 23 November 2007, 25 September 2022, However the lawyer did not accept the claims and requested investigations.WEB,zanestan.org/news/07,11,01,07,44,18/, خبر | روزآنلاین » وکیل زهرا بنی عامری:خواستار تحقیقات بیشتر شده ایم, 10 November 2018, 25 September 2022, Zanestan,

See also

• Death of Mahsa Amini
• Guidance Patrol
• History of fundamentalist Islam in Iran
• Zahra Kazemi

Notes

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External links

• Iran: Female Doctor’s Prison Death Causes Public Outcry
• {{in lang|fa}} It is unbelievable! by Masoud Behnoud
• {{in lang|fa}} BBC article