Demonstrations have continued for five successive nights in towns and cities around the country after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the regime’s ‘morality police’ for allegedly breaking the country’s hijab laws, died in hospital on Friday.
International Women’s Day: 10 extraordinary women on the one woman who inspires them the most, saying that Amini “suddenly suffered a heart problem” after arriving at their detention centre and was then taken to hospital. Amini’s family have said she was fit and healthy at the time of her arrest and that doctors at the hospital hadn’t diagnosed her with a heart attack or a stroke, but told the family her brain was “no longer conscious”.
In the days following Amini’s death, women across the country have been at the forefront of protests against the regime’s restrictive laws, which require women to cover their hair with a hijab or headscarf and cover their arms and legs with loose clothing.
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