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Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today, how the death of a young woman in Iran unleashed the pent-up fury of the entire country. My colleague, Farnaz Fassihi, has been reporting on the protests unfolding across Iran and the grievances of those who have taken to the streets. It’s Wednesday, September 28. Farnaz, tell us the story of Mahsa Amini and what exactly happened to her last week in Iran. Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian young woman who traveled from her hometown of Saqqez in the province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, with her family. She was a youthful, beautiful young woman, full of life. She had just gotten a job at a shop in her hometown and was hoping to study to go to the university. And she’s a small-town girl coming to the capitol to visit relatives with her family. She gets in the subway with her brother, gets out of the subway station. And she encounters what’s known as the morality police. And what is that? The morality police is a force in Iran that polices what women wear because Iran has a law of mandatory hijab. Women have to cover their hair. They have to cover the curves of their body. And the government polices that with the morality police. And Mahsa was wearing a long, loose robe, black, long, loose, robe covering her body. She was wearing a black scarf over her head from the pictures that her family have provided. And from what you can see, she doesn’t appear in violation of the hijab law. But the morality police stop her and tell her that her job is not in line with the rules, and tell her that they want to take her to a detention center to give her a re-education class about the hijab. Mahsa and her brother resist. Her brother talks to them about how they’re strangers in the city. They don’t really know their way around. And they’re visitors. But they insist anyway and take mass away in a van, with other women, to a detention center in Tehran. If you’re a woman in Iran, chances are that you’ve been to this detention center, called [INAUDIBLE]. Even the name of [INAUDIBLE] sets panic and fear among Iranian women. I’m Iranian-American. I’ve lived in Iran. I’ve traveled to Iran. Even I’ve been taken to that same detention center because I was showing too much hair and my robe was too short. I had to pledge that I would never violate the hijab law ever again in order to be released. But the morality police apply these rules in an unpredictable way. Sometimes they give you a verbal notice. Sometimes they give you a financial fine. Sometimes they beat you up. These are not just stories. These are documented incidents. So [INAUDIBLE] is this place in Iranian women’s mind that is feared, a place where bad things can happen to you. So they take Mahsa to the detention center. The brother finds his way there and is standing outside with other parents and other family members of women who are in there. And they hear shouting and an argument. And soon after, an ambulance arrives and takes somebody out. And a woman comes out, distraught, and says something just happened to a young woman inside. Someone collapsed. And it turns out that woman was Mahsa. The ambulance takes Mahsa to the hospital. Her family find their way there. They’re told that she is in a coma. And then a day later, a photograph of Mahsa, lying on a hospital bed, unconscious, with tubes in her mouth and nose and blood dripping out of her ears, is posted online and goes viral. Everybody is paying attention. Everyone wants to know. All the Iranians are looking online. They’re following her hashtag, #mahsaamini. They’re reading the news reports about her to find out what’s happened to this young woman. And a day later, she dies. And Farnaz, what’s our understanding of how Mahsa died, of what it was that occurred during her detention that results in her death? Her family and the majority of Iranians believe that Mahsa was killed at the hands of the morality police. Her family says that she was a perfectly-healthy young woman. They took her in a van to the detention center. And something transpired in the van. They say that they’ve spoken to other women who were with Mahsa in the van. And they say that they witnessed security forces beating her and banging her head. And they think that she suffered a head injury. But government officials deny these accusations and tell their own version of the story. They say Mahsa collapsed from a heart attack while inside the facility and that she had an underlying medical condition. And to prove their narrative, they put out surveillance footage of inside the detention center, showing the woman that they claim is Mahsa getting up from her seat, going to speak to a morality police officer. Then she holds her head in her hands and suddenly she collapses. And then the video cuts to medics rushing in and taking her out on a stretcher to an ambulance. But no one believes that story. Demonstrations against the government erupt across the country and they are led by women. We see unprecedented scenes in the street of women taking off their hijab, stripping off those headscarves, waving it in the air and tossing it into fire, and burning the scarves. We see them dancing around with their hair flowing all around them in front of security guards, security forces. They chant, woman, life, freedom. And they’re protesting the mandatory hijab law. Obviously, many religious Iranian women voluntarily choose to wear the hijab. But what these protesters are calling for is exactly that right, the right to decide for themselves if they wanted to cover their hair or not. They’re also calling for the abolishment of the morality police. And they’re calling for a fair and just treatment of women. The women’s rights movement in Iran has been going on for almost 100 years. The protests we’re seeing today has been built on years of grassroots activism. But what’s striking is how brave these women have been this time around. This is really the first time that, all at once, they have sparked the protests, that they’re leading it, and that they’re the majority of the foot soldiers. It’s really their moment. I really want to understand why Mahsa’s death so quickly becomes a flash point that ignites all these protests. What is the story of women in Iran at the moment that she dies? Every woman in Iran sees themselves or somebody they know in Mahsa. Mahsa could be your sister, could be your daughter, could be your niece, could be you. They see the systematic abuse of the state against women when it comes to hijab. And this goes back to 1979 when the Islamic revolution toppled the monarchy and the new ruling clerics began enforcing religious laws that reversed some rights that women had in Iranian society. And within two years of the revolution, in 1981, they passed the mandatory hijab law.
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Article about new york times single women:
New york times single women. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors.
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Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email transcripts@nytimes.com with any questions. From “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today, how the death of a young woman in Iran unleashed the pent-up fury of the entire country. My colleague, Farnaz Fassihi, has been reporting on the protests unfolding across Iran and the grievances of those who have taken to the streets. It’s Wednesday, September 28. Farnaz, tell us the story of Mahsa Amini and what exactly happened to her last week in Iran. Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian young woman who traveled from her hometown of Saqqez in the province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, with her family. She was a youthful, beautiful young woman, full of life. She had just gotten a job at a shop in her hometown and was hoping to study to go to the university. And she’s a small-town girl coming to the capitol to visit relatives with her family. She gets in the subway with her brother, gets out of the subway station. And she encounters what’s known as the morality police. And what is that? The morality police is a force in Iran that polices what women wear because Iran has a law of mandatory hijab. Women have to cover their hair. They have to cover the curves of their body. And the government polices that with the morality police. And Mahsa was wearing a long, loose robe, black, long, loose, robe covering her body. She was wearing a black scarf over her head from the pictures that her family have provided. And from what you can see, she doesn’t appear in violation of the hijab law. But the morality police stop her and tell her that her job is not in line with the rules, and tell her that they want to take her to a detention center to give her a re-education class about the hijab. Mahsa and her brother resist. Her brother talks to them about how they’re strangers in the city. They don’t really know their way around. And they’re visitors. But they insist anyway and take mass away in a van, with other women, to a detention center in Tehran. If you’re a woman in Iran, chances are that you’ve been to this detention center, called [INAUDIBLE]. Even the name of [INAUDIBLE] sets panic and fear among Iranian women. I’m Iranian-American. I’ve lived in Iran. I’ve traveled to Iran. Even I’ve been taken to that same detention center because I was showing too much hair and my robe was too short. I had to pledge that I would never violate the hijab law ever again in order to be released. But the morality police apply these rules in an unpredictable way. Sometimes they give you a verbal notice. Sometimes they give you a financial fine. Sometimes they beat you up. These are not just stories. These are documented incidents. So [INAUDIBLE] is this place in Iranian women’s mind that is feared, a place where bad things can happen to you. So they take Mahsa to the detention center. The brother finds his way there and is standing outside with other parents and other family members of women who are in there. And they hear shouting and an argument. And soon after, an ambulance arrives and takes somebody out. And a woman comes out, distraught, and says something just happened to a young woman inside. Someone collapsed. And it turns out that woman was Mahsa. The ambulance takes Mahsa to the hospital. Her family find their way there. They’re told that she is in a coma. And then a day later, a photograph of Mahsa, lying on a hospital bed, unconscious, with tubes in her mouth and nose and blood dripping out of her ears, is posted online and goes viral. Everybody is paying attention. Everyone wants to know. All the Iranians are looking online. They’re following her hashtag, #mahsaamini. They’re reading the news reports about her to find out what’s happened to this young woman. And a day later, she dies. And Farnaz, what’s our understanding of how Mahsa died, of what it was that occurred during her detention that results in her death? Her family and the majority of Iranians believe that Mahsa was killed at the hands of the morality police. Her family says that she was a perfectly-healthy young woman. They took her in a van to the detention center. And something transpired in the van. They say that they’ve spoken to other women who were with Mahsa in the van. And they say that they witnessed security forces beating her and banging her head. And they think that she suffered a head injury. But government officials deny these accusations and tell their own version of the story. They say Mahsa collapsed from a heart attack while inside the facility and that she had an underlying medical condition. And to prove their narrative, they put out surveillance footage of inside the detention center, showing the woman that they claim is Mahsa getting up from her seat, going to speak to a morality police officer. Then she holds her head in her hands and suddenly she collapses. And then the video cuts to medics rushing in and taking her out on a stretcher to an ambulance. But no one believes that story. Demonstrations against the government erupt across the country and they are led by women. We see unprecedented scenes in the street of women taking off their hijab, stripping off those headscarves, waving it in the air and tossing it into fire, and burning the scarves. We see them dancing around with their hair flowing all around them in front of security guards, security forces. They chant, woman, life, freedom. And they’re protesting the mandatory hijab law. Obviously, many religious Iranian women voluntarily choose to wear the hijab. But what these protesters are calling for is exactly that right, the right to decide for themselves if they wanted to cover their hair or not. They’re also calling for the abolishment of the morality police. And they’re calling for a fair and just treatment of women. The women’s rights movement in Iran has been going on for almost 100 years. The protests we’re seeing today has been built on years of grassroots activism. But what’s striking is how brave these women have been this time around. This is really the first time that, all at once, they have sparked the protests, that they’re leading it, and that they’re the majority of the foot soldiers. It’s really their moment. I really want to understand why Mahsa’s death so quickly becomes a flash point that ignites all these protests. What is the story of women in Iran at the moment that she dies? Every woman in Iran sees themselves or somebody they know in Mahsa. Mahsa could be your sister, could be your daughter, could be your niece, could be you. They see the systematic abuse of the state against women when it comes to hijab. And this goes back to 1979 when the Islamic revolution toppled the monarchy and the new ruling clerics began enforcing religious laws that reversed some rights that women had in Iranian society. And within two years of the revolution, in 1981, they passed the mandatory hijab law.
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