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Mahsa-Amini - Mahsa Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman from the northwestern city of Saqqez, hailed from Kurdistan, Iran. She was arrested by the Morality Police on the accusation of not wearing the “proper” hijab, She ultimately lost her life due to torture while in police custody. Amini's death sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, originating in Saqqez and Kurdistan before spreading across Iran and beyond. The movement's rallying cry, "Jin, Jiyan, Azadî," meaning "Woman, Life, Freedom" in Kurdish (and was also translated as “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” into Persian), has become a symbol in the fight for justice and liberation.

Sanandaj - Sanandaj is a city in the Kurdistan province of Iran where many of the protests over the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini took place. The Kurdistan province witnessed some of the most violent clashes between protestors and the authorities, who tried to suppress the movement.

Zahedan - Zahedan is a city in the Sistan-Baluchistan province of Iran, where many of the protests over the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini took place. Zahedan is home to a large Baluch population, who are mostly Sunni Muslims and face discrimination and oppression from the Shi‘i Iranian regime. The Sistan-Baluchistan province has also witnessed some of the most brutal repression by security forces, who have opened fire on protestors and killed dozens of them.