Iranian regime's 'brutal repression, crackdown against dissent met with continued defiance'

Iranian authorities on Saturday prevented the family of Mahsa Amini from holding a ceremony to commemorate the first anniversary of her death, confining her father under "house arrest", as sporadic protests erupted nationwide despite heavy security, rights groups said. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died a few days after her arrest by religious police for allegedly violating the strict dress code for women in force since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Her family says she died from a blow to the head but this is disputed by Iranian authorities. As Iran stops family from marking Mahsa Amini death anniversary, FRANCE 24's Jean-Emile Jammine is joined by Mahsa Alimardani, doctoral student at University of Oxford's Oxford Internet Institute and acting as a senior Information Control Fellow for the Open Technology Fund. She also works with human rights organisation ARTICLE19 on their digital rights projects in Iran.