A woman cut her hair in front of the Iranian embassy in Istanbul, Turkey, in protest of the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died while in custody of Iran's morality police.
In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, a police motorcycle is burning during a protest of the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran.
The governor of Tehran province, Mohsen Mansouri, accused foreign embassies of fanning the protests and said three foreign nationals had been arrested. He did not specify the nationality of the embassies or the detainees. Italy's Foreign Ministry called for “the perpetrators of this cowardly act” to be held to account, saying “violence against innocent people, especially women and girls, can never be tolerated.”
Amjad Amini, her father, told an Iranian news website that witnesses saw her being shoved into a police car.
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