Iran protesters rally to mark 40 days since Amini’s death

By The Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Hundreds of protesters were pouring into the streets of a northwestern Iranian city to mark the watershed 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Her tragedy sparked Iran’s biggest antigovernment movement in over a decade. Deaths are commemorated in Shiite Islam — as in many other traditions — again 40 days later with outpourings of grief. In Amini’s Kurdish hometown of Saqez, the birthplace of the nationwide unrest now roiling Iran, crowds on Wednesday thronged her grave, chanting: “Death to the dictator!” In a separate development, most of the remaining portion of a 10-story tower that collapsed earlier this year, killing at least 41 people, fell on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if there were more casualties.