This is the Guardian.

Today, how the death of a young woman in custody has sparked nationwide demonstrations in Iran.

Masha Amini was a 22-year-old small town girl from the Kurdish region in western Iran.

She was visiting the capital Teraan with her family. She is on the subway in Teraan,

gets off at a station inside the city and is stopped by the morality police with her brother.

It was an encounter that happens hundreds of times every day in Iran. A young woman

stopped by the authorities wanting to inspect her clothes. And from there, it starts to escalate.

She is then detained for supposedly not being dressed appropriately according to the mandatory

hijab laws and Islamic dress code and she is taken to the detention center.

A few hours later, she ends up in the hospital and the coma eventually dies.

Her family says she was a healthy 22-year-old. The state maintains that she had underlying health

conditions and died of a heart attack or just a sudden collapse. Her family says that she was

subjected to violence and that's the reason for her death.

In cities across Iran, night after night, protesters are chanting Masa Amini's name and the slogan

Women Life Freedom. The protests are still going and spreading around the world even as the

Iranian government's response gets bloodier. So how did one woman's death become an international

movement and how far could it go? From the Guardian, a Michael Saffey. Today in focus,

the women's uprising that's ignited Iran.

Nagar Mottazavi, your journalist and analyst from Iran who's now living in exile in Washington

D.C. and I'd like you to start by giving me a sense of Masa Amini, the kind of young woman that she was.

I think what resonates with most Iranians is that she was a normal girl. She was a very

normally dressed young woman from a small town and what a lot of women are essentially saying is

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