Women burn headscarves as anti-hijab protests escalate after a woman was killed for wearing inappropriate hijab in Iran

Thursday, September 22, 2022 - Women in Iran have set fire to their headscarves as protests erupted across Iran in response to a woman dying in the custody of the country’s "morality police". On September 13, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, originally from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, in western Iran, was in Tehran, having travelled…

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