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Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [15] or "died down" [16] by spring of 2023.
Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after outrage swept the country and fueled a wave of unrest that saw women and girls remove their headscarves. ... 2023 at 7 :24 AM. Iran is ...
The Girls of Enghelab protests (Persian: دختران انقلاب) are protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran, part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement. The protests were inspired by Vida Movahed, an Iranian woman known as the Girl of Enghelab Street (Persian: دختر خیابان انقلاب), who stood in the crowd on a utility box on Enghelab Street (Revolution Street) in ...
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is still active as of October 2023, despite the harsh repression by the Iranian authorities. [ 20 ] After the Islamic Republic censored the social media of "the Covenant" and " Neighborhood youth alliance ", leadership of the movement shifted to a coalition of Iranian opposition leaders, including the ...
Iran’s security forces reportedly assaulted the woman and tore off her clothes inside Tehran’s Islamic Azad University science and research branch on Saturday for not following strict hijab rules.
In October 2023, Iranian teenage Armita Geravand was injured in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s metro while not wearing a headscarf. She later died in the hospital after falling into a coma.
September 2022, when new and more intense protests followed the killing of Mahsa Amini 22, while in the custody of the morality police after being arrested for "improper hijab". [citation needed] As of April 2023, protests have fizzled out due to a violent crackdown, in the form of mass arrests and several executions, but obedience to mandatory ...
LONDON — Protests led by women have erupted across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Mahsa Amini, from Kurdistan, was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was ...