For more than half a month, mass protests in Iran following the death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini have drawn attention around the world. 9News
He added today's protests are finding it easier to "generate solidarity among different social groups".Here's what you need to know about the current Iranian protests.Some have gone as far as calling for a reigime change, while others want and end to the country's oppressive systematic gender inequalities.
Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police on September 13, reportedly for not wearing a hijab properly.Authorities later claimed she had a stroke and fell into a coma due to a pre-existing heart condition. "We want to show them that we don't care about their standards, their definition of beauty or what they think that we should look like," Faezeh Afshan, an Iranian chemical engineer living in Italy, said."extreme gender apartheid" by some experts for the country's many discriminatory lawsSome of those laws include a requirement for women to cover their head and face with a hijab and obtain written permission from a male guardian before travelling overseas.
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