On 16 September 2022, the 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini (Kurdish: مەھسا ئەمینی, Persian: مهسا امینی)[3], also known as Zhina Amini or Jina Amini

(Kurdish: ژینا ئەمینی), died in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious

circumstances, potentially due to police brutality.

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Amini was arrested by the Guidance Patrol, a vice squad of the Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran overseeing public implementation of 

hijab regulations, for non-compliance of her hijab with government

standards. The official police report stated that she went into 

heart failure and died after two days in a coma. 

 

Eye-witnesses, however, reported that her head was beaten

with a stick and smashed into the side of a police car,

leading to internal bleeding and brain death.

 

Many people from all over the world reacted to Amini's death,

which according to some news sources, became a symbol of

violence against women under the Islamic Republic of Iran.