(In late September, the Iranian government restricted access to several social-media platforms, according to a Los Angeles Times report, “curtailing it sharply between 4 p.m. and approximately 1 a.m., when most protests take place.”) Hundreds of people have been injured, and according to local news outlets, at least 3,000 have been arrested.Amini was arrested on September 13 for violating Iran’s mandatory dress code that requires women, regardless of religious affiliation, to conceal their hair and neck with a headscarf.Irfan Mortezai, a cousin who had fled to Iraq in 2020, quickly joined the search after receiving a text from Amini’s brother saying, “She’s been arrested by the morality police.” “We tried by every means to reach, her but the Iranian authorities did not let us,” Mortezai told the Associated Press.“They said we could not use the bathroom, and that if we got hungry we could eat our stools,” said the woman, who also alleged that authorities threatened the group with violence: “After almost a day, when we shouted and protested inside the room, they started threatening us that if we didn’t keep quiet, they would rape us,” she said.Women have long been arrested for pushing back against modesty laws, including in 2017, when 29 women were arrested for going without their hijabs in public."