Open-Source Information Provides Powerful Evidence of Gender Crimes in Iran and Beyond

A smartphone focuses on people clustered on a dark road, backlit by streetlights and sheltered by skinny trees. The group is protesting as part of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran, which began in 2022 after Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, died in police custody. The protesters are demanding fundamental political change, greater recognition of women’s rights, and an end to the violent enforcement of hijab laws by the Islamic Republic of Iran.