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Thousands gather in London's Trafalgar Square to protest death of Mahsa Amini in Iran

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Thousands of people gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday 24 September to protest against the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran.

She died after being detained by Iran’s feared morality police, allegedly for Islamic dress code infractions. It is widely thought she died after being beaten though Iranian authorities claim it was of natural causes.

The protesters had diverse causes, united in opposition to the current theocratic government of Iran.

Some were Kurdish — Mahsa Amini was herself Kurdish, an often marginalised group in Iran — others liberal, feminist, secular, and even royalist.

The latter held up pictures of the last Shah of Iran and chanted pro-Pahlavi slogans. The Pahlavi dynasty was the last Iranian royal dynasty, deposed by those who went on to form Iran’s current Islamic republic.

There was also a rainbow LGBTQ flag flying at the rally.

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