Artist: Ford Hickson
On 13 September 2022, Mahsa Amini was arrested in Tehran for “improperly” wearing her hijab. She was placed in detention where she was beaten into a coma and died three days later.Jina was a kind, sweet young woman from Saghez, the Kurdistan province in Iran. The Kurdish minority suffer from huge discrimination by the regime. Mahsa’s Kurdish name is Jina; the name her family and friends knew her by. Her parents could not register this Kurdish name and in her official documents she is called Mahsa. Her death, became a symbol of Iranian oppression. Her face, and her story, are now known around the world.