September 16, 2022 Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman of Kurdish origindied in hospital two days after being arrested on a street in Tehran (Iran) by the so-called “moral police” for not wearing the hijab or Islamic veil correctly, and taken to a police station where she was beaten and tortured.
Iranian authorities claimed that the young woman died as a result of an unfortunate incident, but the fact shocked the country’s society and sparked a wave of protestsboth in Iran and around the world. Thousands of women shouting “women, life and freedom” took to the streets, many of them burning their veils and cutting their hair to protest Mahsa’s death. Protests that began with demands for optional veiling in Iran and sparked a revolution that eventually called for regime change in the country.
From this point on, many women began to challenge the oppression of the Islamic regime and their protests were violently repressedThere have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of deaths. These events have frustrated the Iranian government, which has launched a new plan for the police to identify, through cameras and facial recognition, women who are not wearing the veil in the street.
LaSexta Noticias reported on Mahsa’s tragic death and the protests led by women and a large part of Iranian society to demand justice and improve women’s rights in the Islamic country.
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