News Comment #12: Iran Shutting Down Morality Police, Official Says, After Months of Protests

At least 400 people have been killed in Iran since the protests began, including 50 minors, and the United Nations has said that some 14,000 people have been arrested.

The killing of, Mahsa Amini, a young woman in Iran led to the ongoing protest. She was arrested by the moral police because of the way she was dressed. Protesters have been chanting “woman, life, freedom,” tearing off their hijabs, burned them in street bonfires and cut their hair in symbolic acts of defiance.

The attorney general said that the authorities were reviewing the law requiring women to cover their bodies in long, loose clothing and their hair with a head scarf or hijab and would issue a decision within 15 days.

This article is well-written and even if you, as a reader, have not kept up with the ongoing protests in Iran you can still understand the article. It is definitely a benefit if the reader already know about the situation, but it is not necessary. The length of the article is good, not too long or too short. If gives the reader a good insight on the whole situation and what the progress of it is.

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