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Iran to review mandatory headscarf law following Mahsa Amini protests

This UGC image posted on Twitter on 26 October 2022 shows an unveiled woman atop a vehicle as thousands of people make their way to the Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to commemorate 40 days since her death. © AFP

Iran said it was reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as the country struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.

Protests have swept Iran since the 16 September death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.

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