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Sep 2022
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S3 Ep8: FREE IRAN!

Sisters in the City
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This weeks episode isn't like the usual episodes but its something that is close to Anna & Mandis hearts. Last week Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish Iranian girl was taken my morality police and beaten to death because her hijab wasn't on properly. At the moment the people in Iran are risking their lives to protest freedom in Iran. Please help share her name and story. Please help free Iran.

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