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Maryam Mazrooei

November 2022

  • Hundreds of Iranians protest in Central London<br>LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 29: Hundreds of Iranians demonstrate in Trafalgar Square in London, Britain, October, 29, 2022, protesting in solidarity with Iran protest following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died while in police custody. Mahsa Amini also known as Jina Amini, died on September, 16, 2022 in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, after going into a coma following her detention by Iran's Islamic Republic's morality police enforcing hijab rules on women's dress code. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    At age seven, I had to cover my hair. Now women in Iran are fighting for freedom

    Maryam Mazrooei
    The killing of Mahsa Amini has galvanised a new generation to reject oppression – I hope that they achieve what we couldn’t, says the war photographer and journalist Maryam Mazrooei