00:00 Lying in bed, intubated in hospital, the price 22-year-old Mahsa Amini first paid for incorrectly
00:07 wearing her headscarf, then to die three days later from a lack of oxygen to her brain.
00:12 This photograph of her parents learning of their daughter's death went round the world.
00:18 The journalist who took it, now in prison.
00:21 Shortly after, anger spread from Mahsa's home region of Kurdistan and a movement emerged,
00:27 especially among students.
00:29 Crowds of women removing their hijabs, some going so far as to burn them, all in protest
00:35 against the Iranian morality police, responsible for enforcing the Islamic dress code.
00:41 Others cut their hair, a practice that caught on among the country's diaspora, like here
00:46 in Berlin, and it even reached the European Parliament.
00:49 "Until the women of Iran are free, we are going to stand with you. Jihan, jihan azadi.
00:59 Women, life, freedom."
01:02 Faced with growing unrest, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made this statement.
01:09 "This incident happened, a young girl died. It was a bitter incident. We were also upset."
01:19 Arrest numbers climbed rapidly, and it is estimated a total of 20,000 were detained
01:24 over these protests.
01:26 But the movement remained strong, and 40 days after Mahsa's death, crowds gathered outside
01:32 the cemetery where she was buried in the city of Sekez.
01:35 And undeterred by the repression, when President Ibrahim Raisi used a speech at a Tehran university
01:41 to condemn the protests, he was met with shouts of "get lost Raisi".
01:47 Online, actors uploaded photographs of themselves without headscarves, holding up slogans such
01:53 as "women, life, freedom".
01:56 Taranae Ali-Dusti was detained for three weeks.
