Immorality code
Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for not wearing a hijab, in contravention of the country's strict rules on head coverings. She was beaten while inside a police van. Because it's immoral for a woman to not cover her head, but it's okey-dokey for the police to kick the crap out of her. That's not immoral; is that it? (rolleyes)
She later died of her injuries.
Eyewitnesses said Mahsa Amini was beaten while inside a police van when she was picked up in Tehran on Tuesday. Police have denied the allegations, saying Ms Amini had "suddenly suffered a heart problem".
Rana Rahimpour, BBC Persian
Severe enough beatings can certainly have that effect, it's true. (pipe)
Tehran's chief of police doesn't want a repeat of what he refers to as an
. Although it's unclear, from David Gritten's report, as to whether he's referring to women not wearing head coverings, or his officers beating them to death.unfortunate
incident
He went on to add that we cannot stop doing security work
. [cough]
Still, it's good to know that if, especially as a woman, you plan subversion in Iran the best way to avoid the unwanted attention of the security
forces is to wear a headscarf. (whistling)
When Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi demanded that CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour wear a headscarf for an interview in New York, she declined and cancelled. One of Raisi's aides had explained that his demand was due to the situation in Iran and a matter of respect. A matter of respect? To a despot? Phuqueem.
She countered that wearing a head covering was not a requirement in the US.
"We are in New York, where there is no law or tradition regarding headscarves," she said later on Twitter.
Merlyn Thomas, BBC News
I realise that she'd be too diplomatic to do it, but I get some pleasure from thinking that her reply invited him to go for a spin.(middlefinger)(grin)
As we talk in the shadow of the mountains, he uses her Kurdish given name - Zhina - the one her friends and family called her every day. Mahsa is her official Iranian name, which her parents were forced to use on documentation because certain Kurdish names are banned in Iran.
Anna Foster, BBC Middle East correspondent
So her real name was Zhina Amini. I wish I'd known earlier, I wouldn't've referred to her by her Iranian wrongname.