Žinā, a victim of the Islamic Regime's morality police, tragically died from a skull fracture. Her murder sparked the Woman Life Freedom revolution, making her name synonymous with the movement.

• Žinā "Mahsā" Amini was born in a Kurdish family in Saqqez. She had just been admitted to university and had a brother named Ashkan.
• # Arrested by the Islamic Guidance Patrol Žinā Amini had traveled with her family from Saqqez to Tehran to visit her family. She was arrested by Islamic Morality patrol near Shahid Haqqani metro station located on Shahid Haqqani highway at around 6 o'clock in the evening on Tuesday, 13 September, while she was with her brother. According to her brother Āraš Amini, when she was arrested, she told the Islamic Morality patrol agents, "We are strangers in this city." After her brother protested, he was told that his sister would be taken to the detention center for a "briefing class" and would be released in an hour. Her uncle told Radio Farda: > Žinā's brother was there and when he wanted to resist and not allow Žinā to be arrested, they fired tear gas and dispersed [him and the protesters]. Eyewitnesses in the patrol car and in the detention center reported that she was beaten.
• # Death under the beating of the Islamic Morality Police Žinā Amini died three days later in Kasra Hospital. Two hours after Žinā's arrest and transfer to Tehran's Morality Police building on Vozarā Street, she suffered brain death due to injuries to her skull and was admitted to Kasari hospital's intensive care unit. When his brother was waiting for his sister in front of the building, he saw an ambulance leaving the building. He asks one of the soldiers about the reason for the ambulance leaving the building, when he is told that one of the soldiers was injured. After showing her sister's photo to the other girls released from the detention center, he finds out that the ambulance was carrying the half-life body of Žinā. According to the report that was received by informed sources from Kasra Hospital in Tehran, Žinā was medically dead as soon as she arrived at the hospital. She was brain dead due to a severe blow to her head. Možgān Eftexāri, Žinā's mother, said shortly before Žinā's death > She was completely healthy before her arrest. ## The beginning of an end The tragic death of Žinā became the spark of the Woman Life Freedom revolution and her name became a code name for freedom and equality.