Iran's state-run media acknowledged on Thursday that at least 17 people have been killed in anti-government protests which have spread across the country.
Iran's state-run media acknowledged on Thursday that at least 17 people have been killed in anti-government protests which have spread across the country. The unrest was sparked by the death of a woman detained by the country's so-called"morality police," apparently for not covering her hair as required by Iran's strict Islamic laws.
"Iranian women, under the law that was imposed in 1981 after the [Islamic] revolution, are required to cover their hair and dress modestly," Dr. Sanam Vakil, a Middle East policy expert and Iran specialist at London's Chatham House think-tank, told CBS News."Over the past 40 years, Iranian women have been pushing back against this mandatory veiling requirement, and there is a morality police that polices the streets, brings women in, punishes them.
Amini's death has sparked Iran's biggest mass protests since at least 2019, when public anger over skyrocketing gas prices drew huge crowds into the streets. "Due to security issues and the debates going on currently in the country, restrictions to the internet may be decided and applied by the security apparatus, but overall we have not had any bandwidth reduction," Zarepour was quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency. Opposition broadcaster Manoto TV claimed that Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, had removed a large number of videos from its Instagram page that were related to the protests.
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