Anger was triggered by the death in police custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, nearly a month ago. Ms Amini had been arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the law requiring women to cover their hair with a hijab, or headscarf.
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