The Iranian football team refused to sing their national anthem before their opening match at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar on November 21, in solidarity with mass protests that have followed the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody—for not wearing her hijab “appropriately”.
Hundreds of people have died in the government’s crackdown on protesters, whose slogan “Women, life, freedom” has become the refrain of the movement.
