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Mahsa Amini was born on 21 September 1999 to a Kurdish family in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, in northwestern Iran. While Mahsa was her official Persian given name, her Kurdish name was Jina, and this was the name her family used. Her father is an employee in a government organization and her mother is a housewife.
- Jina Amini
- Tehran, Iran
- 16 September 2022
- Mahsa Amini protests
Sep 21, 2022 · Amini is the latest symbol of the oppression of Iranian women. In 2019 an Iranian woman named Sahar Khodayari dressed up as a man to sneak into a stadium and watch a men's soccer match. When the ...
Sep 16, 2023 · Mahsa Amini.”. Saturday will mark one year since the 22-year-old woman from Saghez, a small city in a Kurdish province in northwest Iran, died in the custody of the country’s morality police ...
Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا ژینا امینی; 21 September 1999 – 16 September 2022), also known as Jîna Emînî (Kurdish: ژینا ئەمینی), was an Iranian woman whose arrest in Tehran for opposing mandatory hijab and subsequent death in police custody sparked a wave of protests throughout Iran. People and governments around the ...
Sep 15, 2023 · Mahsa/Zhina Amini, a Kurdish woman, died in custody after being arrested by Iran's "morality" police for not wearing a veil. Her case sparked a nationwide uprising against repression and inequality, which the authorities violently suppressed and executed protesters.
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Mar 8, 2024 · The UN fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the "physical violence" that led to Mahsa Amini's death in police custody and the "unlawful and extrajudicial killings" of more than 500 protesters. The report also documents sexual violence, rape and torture against demonstrators who demanded freedom, equality and dignity.
Sep 21, 2022 · Demonstrators gather around a burning barricade during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic Republic's "morality police," in Tehran on September 19, 2022.
