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Amy Francombe

How the Iranian Diaspora is using art to protest

An unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez,

(Picture: UGC/AFP via Getty Images)

In the weeks since the tragic death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police on September 16, the country has descended into the biggest protest since the 1969 revolution.

With civil unrest growing in more than 80 Iranian cities, photographs and videos from the protests have flooded the internet, with the hashtag of Mahsa’s name in Persian becoming one of the most used in Twitter’s history.

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