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Authorities say she suffers from 'psychological fragility'; activists say other women opposing the system have been sent to ...

A few days before her death, the young Kurdish woman had been arrested for flouting ... That is, Lozano could have refused to wear the chador: “you don’t have to accept everything the regime ...