Akram Esmaili
05/04/23 03:03:19 PM UTC
Ephemera
A person in a hoodie and mask looms over a crowd holding signs, while a riot police officer stands in the foreground with a sword. A person in a hoodie and mask looms over a crowd holding signs, while a riot police officer stands in the foreground with a sword. Mahsa-Amini - Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the northwestern city of Saqqez, hailed from Kurdistan, Iran. She was arrested by the Morality Police on the accusation of not wearing the “proper” hijab, She ultimately lost her life due to torture while in police custody. Amini's death sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, originating in Saqqez and Kurdistan before spreading across Iran and beyond. The movement's rallying cry, "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî," meaning "Woman, Life, Freedom" in Ku
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