"On 16 September 2022, for a few locks of her hair reportedly appearing under her hijab, Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish 22-year-old woman died in the custody of the so-called morality police," Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, told the Human Rights Council at a special session on 24 November 2022.

"This tragic event was not an isolated one, but the latest in a long series of extreme violence committed by Iranian authorities against women," he said.

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