1 month after Mahsa Amini’s death: A look back at protests across Iran, around world

It has been one month since protests began over the death of Mahsa Amini, but rallies across Iran and around the world have shown no signs of slowing. For the past month, women have cut off their hair, artists have dyed public fountains red and students have rallied in demonstrations of defiance against the Iranian government.

Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died on Sept. 16 after falling into a coma while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police.” She was being held for not wearing her hijab properly, labelled as “inappropriate attire,” according to the rigidly enforced Islamic Penal Code. She was detained three days earlier in the country’s capital of Tehran.

Police said she suffered a heart attack after being taken to a station to be “educated.” Her family denied her having any heart problems and her father later said she had bruises on her legs, holding the police responsible for her death.

The demonstrations over Amini’s death have become one of the greatest challenges to Iran’s theocracy since the country’s Green Movement protests in 2009. As demonstrations continue to persist following Amini’s death, human rights groups say more than 200 people have been killed in the crackdown nationwide, including teenage girls. Amnesty International said at least 23 children have died.

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