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Mahsa Amini: Woman dies after arrest by Iran’s morality police

The mandatory dress code in Iran, which applies to all nationalities and religions, not just Iranian Muslims, requires women to conceal their hair and neck with a headscarf [File: Atta Kenare/AFP]

A young woman has died after falling into a coma following her detention by Iran’s morality police, state media have reported, sparking fury on social media.

Mahsa Amini, 22, had come to Tehran, from her hometown of Saqqez in Kurdistan province, with her family when she was detained by the specialist police unit that enforces the strict dress code that was made obligatory for women shortly after the Islamic revolution of 1979.

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