Massive and spreading protests have rocked Iran in the wake of widening social discontent following the death of a woman Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody. Her crime? Not wearing the obligatory headscarf properly. Demonstrations across the country have jolted the Islamic Republic to its core as thousands of women publicly and provocatively remove and then burn their headscarves, the hijab, in public.
Masha Amini, 22, a Kurdish Iranian was arrested by the "morality police" in Tehran for not wearing her hijab in compliance with mandatory dress codes. She died shortly thereafter under murky circumstances.
