: At least 17 people have been killed as popular unrest flared Thursday across Iran over the death in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, local media reported, as online services were cut in a security crackdown.
Some Iranian women have burnt their headscarves and symbolically cut their hair in protest at the strict dress code, echoed in solidarity demonstrations from New York to Istanbul. Unprecedented images have shown protesters defacing or burning images of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and late Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani.
“People in Iran are being cut off from online apps and services,“ Instagram chief Adam Mosseri tweeted, adding that “we hope their right to be online will be reinstated quickly”.Activists have said that Amini, whose Kurdish first name is Jhina, suffered a fatal blow to the head after her arrest in Tehran -- a claim denied by officials.
“I politely declined. We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves,“ Amanpour, who was born in Britain to an Iranian father, wrote on Twitter.Speaking in New York, where he attended the UN General Assembly, Raisi complained of a “double standard”, pointing to Israeli actions in the Palestinian territories and the deaths of Indigenous women in Canada.
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