Iran Feels the Wrath of a Movement Held Down for Too Long
When Mahsa Zhina Amini — a young Kurdish-Iranian woman — was arrested by the police of Iran for not wearing...
Ladan Rahbari is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She is a member of Amsterdam Young Academy and a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS).
When Mahsa Zhina Amini — a young Kurdish-Iranian woman — was arrested by the police of Iran for not wearing...

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