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Ali Velshi on Women, Life, Freedom … In Iran.

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member discusses the renewed morality crackdown on women in Iran, where Mahsa Amini's tragic death inspired the Women, Life, Freedom movement

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Ali Velshi on Women, Life, Freedom … In Iran.

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member discusses the renewed morality crackdown on women in Iran, where Mahsa Amini's tragic death inspired the Women, Life, Freedom movement

BY Ali Velshi

May. 22, 2024

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In 2022, Mahsa Amini was taken into custody for allegedly violating the dress code Iran has inflicted against women in the country. She died days later. Ali Velshi recounts how the death of Mahsa Amini sparked a movement calling itself Jin, Jiyan, Azadî: Women, Life, Freedom.

Women openly demonstrated against the regime’s restrictions, forcing the morality police to withdraw enforcement to a certain extent. But now, reports are emerging that Iran is cracking down again, deploying security forces who engage in violence, surveillance, harassment, and arrests against them and their supporters.

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