IN PHOTOS | Women, activists across the world express solidarity with anti-hijab protests in Iran

Iran has exploded in protests in the aftermath of the death of a 22-year-old woman who was detained by security forces. Thousands have descended on the streets to decry Iran’s heavy-handed and draconian security services. People across the world, too, are marching, to express their solidarity for the women of Iran.

Iran has exploded in protests in the aftermath of the death of a 22-year-old woman who was detained by security forces. Thousands have descended on the streets to decry Iran’s heavy-handed and draconian security services. People across the world, too, are 

The outrage of women in Iran, and the scores supporting the protests across the world, was triggered by the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by the morality police for refusing to wear a hijab when on a visit to Tehran on September 17. She was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating its strictly-enforced dress code. She allegedly died in police custody. (Photo |AP)

Over 76 anti-government protesters have been killed by security forces so far, according to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR), while Iran's semi-official Fars news agency has put the toll at 'around 60'. Authorities said on Monday they had made more than 1,200 arrests. (Photo | AP)

Hundreds of people have also been arrested including 20 journalists even as the protests have reportedly spread to more than 80 cities and towns across Iran since the funeral of Mahsa Amini. Iraqi women protest at al-Fardoos square in Baghdad in solidarity with Iranian women after the death of Mahsa Amini and against imposing wearing a headscarf on women. (Photo | AFP)

Zar. Zendegi. Azadi. (translation: Women. Life. Freedom) --- the slogans of the ongoing protests. “It is not an Iranian revolution or even a Kurdish revolution. It is a women’s revolution,' Rozhin, 25, from the Kurdish city of Kermanshah, was quoted as saying by The Guardian. (Photo |AP)

A woman shouts slogans next to an Iranian flag during a protest against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini, outside Iran’s general consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 21, 2022. (Photo | AP)

Demonstrators hold placards outside the Iranian Embassy in London, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. They were protesting against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini, who was killed by the morality police. (Photo |AP)

A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish 'Justice for Mahsa Amini' as she protests against the death of Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo |AP)

A police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country's conservative dress code, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (Photo |AP)

Iranian women burn their headscarves during a rally against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini in Bern, Switzerland, Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo |AP)

Women protests against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died while in police custody in Iran, in front of the Iranian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo |AP)

An Iranian woman cuts a lock of her hair during a rally against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini in Bern, Switzerland, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (Photo |AP)

A woman holds a placard during a protest against the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini, in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 28, 2022. (Photo |AP)

However, there were few Iranian pro-government demonstrators too who held posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during their rally condemning recent anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. (Photo |AP)

A pro-government demonstrator holds a poster of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini while attending a rally after the Friday prayers to condemn recent anti-government protests over the death of a young woman in police custody, in Tehran, Iran, Sept. 23, 2022. (Photo |AP)