Despite everything else in the news right now, many have been gripped by the mainly women-led protests taking place in Iran following the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She had been detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly failing to wear the hijab properly. The Iranian security forces are cracking down hard on the demonstrations, scores of people having died as live ammunition is used against protesters hurling rocks, torching police cars and setting fire to state buildings. Some women have removed and burned their hijabs in the rallies and cut off their hair, whilst chanting ‘woman, life, freedom’.