Women . Life . freedom
for the liberty of iranian women
On 16 September 2022 Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from Saqqez in
Iran’s Kurdistan Province, died in a Tehran hospital. Three days earlier
she had been arrested by Iran’s Guidance Patrol, or ‘morality police’,
for wearing her hijab ‘improperly’ and fell into a coma after she was
beaten inside the police van taking her to the Vozara Detention
Centre.Soon protests spread to other cities. During Amini’s funeral, on
17 September, crowds gathered in Saqqez chanting the slogan ‘Women Life
Freedom’, which was adopted across the country and beyond. Civil unrest
eventually spread across cities and towns as well as on Iranian social
media. The initial focus of the protests grew to encompass the diverse
grievances of Iranian women, with many removing and ritualistically
burning their hijabs in front of cheering crowds. Across the diaspora,
Iranian women are cutting their hair in solidarity.[source]
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