The scale of the protest movement that arose after the death of Mahsa Amini and the brutal repression of the demonstrations in the fall of 2022 has left its mark on Iran. Within families, men’s behavior has changed and the place of women is no longer the same. In the streets, more and more women are dropping the veil.
Two years ago, the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman who died in Iran on September 16 while she was being held by the morality police for wearing an “ill-fitting” veil, triggered one of the largest waves of protests in the Islamic Republic.
In the days following her death, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to express their anger, chanting the slogan “Woman, life, freedom”. These demonstrations, which lasted for several months, were violently repressed by the Iranian authorities. Two years later, what remains of this protest movement?
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“Men’s behavior has changed”
- FRANCE 24
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