
More than two years have passed since a young woman called Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested in Iran for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. Her death sparked mass protests throughout Iran against the country’s ruling theocracy.
The fight of Iranian women for freedom and bodily autonomy now rages on. Ahou Daryaei, a 30-year-old French language student at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University, has become the latest symbol of this resistance.