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On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, [a] also known as Jina Amini, [b] [1] [2] [3] died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards.
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement that started in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing hijab correctly. The movement demands the end of compulsory hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women ...
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded the ...
Poet and songwriter. Security forces arrested Borzouee on 28 September 2022, during Mahsa Amini protests, for statements she had made on her Twitter account. [6] [7] [8] 3 Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee: 26 September Tehran: Human rights activist, former political prisoner and wife of Arash Sadeghi. She was arrested by security forces in her house and ...
Demonstrators in Sherman Oaks rally in solidarity with protests in Iran. One participant waves a wig to protest Mahsa Amini's death in Iranian custody and the nation's compulsory hijab laws.
Iran's rulers have intensified a clampdown on dissent nearly one year since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini sparked protests which spiralled into some of the worst political turmoil ...
Mahsa Amini, also Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, was arrested by the Guidance Patrol on 14 September 2022 because of an "improper hijab." The police were accused of beating her and inflicting a fatal head injury, [ 39 ] after a CT scan confirmed that Amini had sustained head injuries, a claim denied by Tehran police. [ 39 ]
Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned Switzerland's envoy in Tehran for a social media post showing Iranian protest icon Mahsa Amini, local reports said on Sunday. Months of anti-government ...