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...In September 2022, a wave of protests spread across Iran in reaction to the death of a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Jina Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police....
...“[I] don’t want to imagine that we have another Mahsa Amini.” Hundreds of people were killed during months of protests against Iran’s Islamic regime following Amini’s death....
...Since the protests that followed Amini’s death, some Iranian women have refused to wear the hijab in public....
...Last September, a young woman from Kurdistan called Mahsa Amini visited Tehran. There, she was arrested by the so-called “morality police” for allegedly transgressing the country’s strict dress code....
...The protests following Amini’s death also took place as Iran’s economy deteriorated, partly as the result of US sanctions over its nuclear programme....
...The incident stoked fears of another wave of social unrest in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini....
...The legacy of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman whose tragic death in police custody in 2022 over the alleged improper wearing of a hijab catalysed a wave of dissent, still resonates deeply within the collective...
...Iran has begun a crackdown on dissent ahead of this month’s first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody that triggered the country’s biggest protests in more than a decade....
...This has been clear this past week when the long-awaited release of five US-Iranian dual nationals unjustly held in Iran has overlapped with the first anniversary of Amini’s killing....
...As the protests escalated following Amini’s death, many women also began to refuse to obey the country’s headscarf rules....
...She has become emblematic of the women’s struggles in Iran, which came to the fore last year when Mahsa Jina Amini died while in the custody of the Iranian morality police, which triggered a wave of protest...
...Last October, following the death of Mahsa Amini, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin unveiled a banner of Neshat’s work on the building’s facade, aiming to draw “attention to the current protests in Iran...
...Younger Iranians in particular have soured on voting, which contributed to the mass protests that erupted after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in 2022....
...These are also the first elections since large-scale protests that followed the death in custody in 2022 of Mahsa Amini, a woman arrested for failing to comply with the country’s strict Islamic dress code...
...In September 2022 Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, was arrested by the morality police for not properly observing the country’s dress code. She died in police custody a few days later....
...Iranian authorities remain on high alert for any sign of civil unrest, with the mass street protests that followed the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini still fresh in their minds....
...Amini, 22, died last September after being arrested by Iran’s morality police, who accused her of not dressing appropriately....
...The issue was thrust to the forefront with the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last year after her arrest for allegedly failing to properly observe the Islamic dress code....
...Many women have refused to wear the obligatory headscarves and long manteaux since last September, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody after failing to properly observe the Islamic dress...
...And the first anniversary of Amini’s death is fast approaching. Which elements will align for the next surge of dissent?...
...The biggest demonstrations were in Amini’s hometown of Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan province, where at least 10,000 people marched to the 22-year-old’s grave....
...Meanwhile, the authorities have mounted a heavy crackdown on dissent in response to mass protests that followed the death last year of Mahsa Amini in police custody after her arrest for allegedly breaching...
...What have they done since Iran’s religious police beat Mahsa Amini to death for not wearing a hijab, an outrage which has ignited wave after wave of rebellion by brave Muslim women who need western support...
...The tensions reached boiling point last September following the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for allegedly not properly observing the obligatory Islamic dress code....
...The death of Amini while in Tehran’s morality police station sparked an explosion of anger that crossed sect, age and class....
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