On 13 September, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, originally from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, was in Tehran, having travelled there to visit family.
She was at the entry of Haqqani Highway with her brother Kiarash Amini when she was arrested by the regime’s so-called 'Guidance Patrol' and transferred to the 'Moral Security' agency, for wearing an inappropriate hijab.
Amini's brother was told she would be taken to a detention centre to undergo a "briefing class" and released shortly afterward.
She never made it. Amini instead arrived at Kasra Hospital,
where she died on Friday after being in a coma for three days.
Witnesses claim she was beaten by the patrol in the van, which was intending to take her to a detention centre.
Mahsa Amini’s murder sparked a conflagration across Iran, where women threw their hijabs into flickering flames and cut their exposed hair in acts of defiance, with men righteously in support by their side. The malevolent regime uses the hijab as a tool of control.
Iranian diaspora communities and human rights activists have launched unprecedented rallies in over 150 cities throughout the world against the Islamic Republic.
Spearheaded by Hamed Esmaeilion,
a Canada-based activist whose daughter and wife were killed by the IRGC,
The Saturday worldwide demonstrations started in Australia, New Zealand and East Asia followed by European cities with cities in the American continent being the last ones to start the scheduled rallies.