IRAN HIJAB PROTESTS: Mahsa Amini Hashtag Reaches 200 Million Tweets Including Supreme Leader

Photo shows a Twitter post that announces the Farsi hashtag for Mahsa Amini was used more than 200 million times, undated photo. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, three days after she was arrested and reportedly beaten by morality police in Tehran, Iran. Note: Picture is a screenshot from a post (Newsflash) Photo shows a Twitter post that announces the Farsi hashtag for Mahsa Amini was used more than 200 million times, undated photo. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital Friday, Sept. 16, 2022, three days after she was arrested and reportedly beaten by morality police in Tehran, Iran. Note: Picture is a screenshot from a post (Newsflash)
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03 October 2022
The Mahsa Amini hashtag has now reached 200 million tweets on Twitter – and it has now even been used by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. The rapid increase from 15 million tweets for the hashtag on 27th September, in both Farsi and English, to well over 10 times that number, comes...