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Her name was Mahsa Amini. Never forget.

Take a pause today and appreciate the freedoms we have, while they last.

A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regimes morality police for allegedly not complying with the country's hijab regulations.

Mahsa Amini was travelling with her family from Iran's western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she was reportedly arrested for failing to meet the country's strict rules on women's dress.
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Witnesses reported that Amini was beaten in the police van, an allegation the police deny.

The news comes weeks after Iran's hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi, ordered a crackdown on women's rights and called for stricter enforcement of the country's mandatory dress code, which has required all women to wear the hijab head-covering since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Amini's family were notified that she had been taken to hospital hours after her arrest. She was transferred to an intensive-care unit at Kasra hospital. According to Hrana, an Iranian human rights organization, Amini's family were told during her arrest that she would be released after a re-education session.

This didn't happen in a movie or play, it happens in the real world, right now. Get behind the bastards. Never forget.