‘Women, life, freedom.’ Inside the protests shocking Iran.

From the moment that they seized Romina from her family home in a pre-dawn raid, the Iranian security forces designed every aspect of her two-week detention to terrify her.

Romina’s captors were determined to convince the young woman that she should give up on women-led street protests demanding improved rights.

Weeks of angry clashes and deaths – in what has been billed as Iran’s first