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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Andy Gregory

Iran protests: Mahsa Amini ‘did not die by blows to head and limbs’, claims coroner

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Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of Tehran’s morality police has sparked some of the worst unrest seen in years in Iran, did not die as a result of blows to the head and limbs, a coroner has claimed.

Instead, the coroner says the 22-year-old died from multiple organ failure caused by cerebral hypoxia, the official news agency IRNA reported.

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