unforgiving crackdown. threats and internet blackouts and severe warnings from the country s leaders. iran s president telling authorities they must deal decisively with those who oppose the country s security and tranquility. the protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old mahsa amina. she d been arrested by the morality police for alleged violation of a dress code. officials released this video showing amini collapsing, but it s unclear what happened beforehand. police took her to a hospital where she died three days later. they deny mistreating her. demonstrations continue nationwide, women leading the charge in a monumental movement. they are burning their head scarves, cutting their hair in public, facing off with riot police, and walking the streets boldly without a hijab despite the massive possibly life-threatening risk. this younger generation of iranians, they ve lived their whole life in a securitized
Days of protests have erupted across Iran after Mahsa Amina, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died after being arrested and tortured by the Islamic fundamentalist state’s “morality police”, reports Peter Boyle.