leading image ‘This is a woman’s revolution in the making’: how the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran sparked worldwide protest

 The 22-year-old, originally from Saqqez in Iran, was travelling with her brother Kiaresh to Tehran, visiting loved ones.

However, she was stopped by Iran’s infamous Guidance Patrol, an element of Iran’s Law Enforcement Forces known colloquially as the ‘morality police’. Under the country’s strict Sharia law, men and women are expected to adhere to a ‘modest’ form of dress – but Iran’s morality police primarily target women, with the loose definition of modest meaning rules are ripe for interpretation – and thereby abuse.

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