Mohammad Ali Shadman published his sister’s photo on social media to support Mahsa Amini
Demonstrators initially gathered outside Kasra hospital, where Amini died after she collapsed in the detention center. Her body was then transported by plane to Saqqez in her native province of Kurdistan in north-west Iran for an emotional burial, which took place on Saturday. The police tried to keep the numbers attending the funeral to a minimum, but 1,000 were reported to have been at the graveside. The protests then gathered outside the Saqqez governor’s office, where the violence occurred. Kurdish human rights groups reported that security forces deployed pepper spray against protesters, leading to more than 30 injuries.
