Protests rocked at least 50 Iranian cities and spread to Western countries over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was arrested by Iran's morality police. She died after she was taken into custody.
A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, in Istanbul, Sept. 20, 2022. Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family to the Iranian capital when she was detained by the police unit responsible for enforcing Iran’s strict dress code for women, including the wearing of the hijab in public.
A man waves a Kurdish flag as he sits upon the shoulders of another during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini – who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities – outside the United Nations’ offices in Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, Sept. 24, 2022.A woman cuts her hair during a demonstration in Sergels Torg in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept.