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🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Before we talk about protests in Iran, I want to tell you how those protests started, |
0:12.4 | with a young woman's decision to visit Tehran. |
0:15.8 | Her name was Masa Amini. |
0:17.6 | She traveled with her brother. |
0:19.5 | She was reportedly coming out of a subway station when she was spotted by Iran's morality |
0:24.1 | police and then escorted into a van. |
0:27.1 | They thought she was dressed immodestly. |
0:29.8 | Maybe a whisp of hair was out of place. |
0:32.0 | Maybe her hijab was drooping. |
0:34.4 | What happens then is very disputed, but what ended up is that she died. |
0:40.6 | So she was brought in and then she died. |
0:43.3 | And this is a 22 year old woman. |
0:45.2 | This is a 22 year old woman with no pre-existing health conditions. |
0:49.3 | I asked Gisuniya to tell me Masa's story. |
0:52.5 | She's a human rights attorney. |
0:53.8 | She's Iranian-American. |
0:55.8 | She says getting arrested like this is not all that uncommon. |
0:59.4 | It's not uncommon for people to die in custody in Iran, either. |
1:03.4 | But what is uncommon is what happened next. |
1:06.8 | Then there was a photo of her in a hospital bed looking beat up on a ventilator, sort |
1:14.5 | of an air device to help her breathe. |
1:17.2 | And it was just absolutely shocking to see this young beautiful woman in the hospital bed |
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