Iran protest deaths reportedly soar as woman's family tells CBS News she was tortured and killed by "morality police"
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The family of a young woman who died in Iran after she was accused of a dress code violation and arrested by the country's "morality police" have told CBS News she was tortured and killed in police custody. Mahsa Amini's death sparked protests that have raged across Iran for 11 days against the country's ruling Muslim clerics, with more than 75 people killed in the unrest according to one monitoring group.
With defiance and despair, family, friends and neighbors came in their thousands last week to bury 22-year-old Amini.
"She was tortured, according to eyewitnesses," her cousin Erfan Mortezaei told CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio. Mortezaei lives in exile in Iraq, but he's in contact with family still in Iran.
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