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An ongoing series of protests and civil unrest against the government of Iran began in Tehran on 16 September 2022 [80] as a reaction to the death of Amini that day following police custody, after she was arrested by the Guidance Patrol for wearing an "improper" hijab—in violation of Iran's mandatory hijab law—while visiting Tehran from ...
Unemployment, widespread poverty and inflation. [ 1] The 2021-2022 Iranian protests erupted on 15 July 2021 to protest the water shortages and crisis, but were quickly met with police violence and brutality. "Bloody Aban", November 2021 saw further protests due to water shortages but various other protests and strikes also took place due to the ...
See detainees for notable cases. 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. As of ...
The protests that followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in detention after being arrested by the country's morality police for not wearing her hijab correctly, have become Iran's ...
Amini’s death in custody of the country’s morality police last week sparked sweeping protests calling for an end to the hijab mandate Photos Show World Reactions to Mahsa Amini’s Death in ...
Photo of Mahsa Jina Amini on a protest placard in Melbourne Mahsa Jina Amini was born on 21 September 1999 [ 19 ] to a Kurdish family in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province , in northwestern Iran. While Mahsa was her legal given name (as only Persian names may be registered in Iran), her Kurdish name was Jina (also spelled Zhina), and was the name she ...
On International Women's Day on March 8, 1979, a women's march took place in Tehran in Iran. The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory hijab ...
2019–2020 Iranian protests. Throughout Iran, in 29 provinces, 104 cities and 719 places. [ 1] The 2019–2020 Iranian protests, sometimes known as Bloody November or (using the Iranian calendar) Bloody Aban ( Persian: آبان خونین ), were a series of nationwide civil protests in Iran that took place in 2019 and 2020.