Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, had been detained for not wearing her headscarf properly while visiting Tehran in September 2022. She later died in police custody in hospital ...

The 2022 protests were triggered by the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the moral guardians for a headscarf violation. An UN-commissioned expert ...

Her gender and Kurdish origins have made her a special ... She evidently did not approve of the headscarf requirement in Iran. Amini had recently celebrated her 22nd birthday, and graduated ...