Mahsa Amini’s grave has been smashed up again in Iran, with her defiant family vowing to fix it no matter how often it happens.

The young woman’s death after being arrested by Iran’s morality police last September sparked waves of anti-government protests across the country.

But now her family have shared images online showing a glass pane covering her tombstone at the Aichi cemetery, in the city of Saqqez, that was smashed.

Mahsa’s brother Ashkan Amini said that it was the second time her resting place had been attacked in the last few months.

He added: “Even the glass of her tombstone bothers them.”

He also said: “No matter how many times they break it, we will fix it. Let’s see who gets tired first.”

Saleh Nirbakht, the family lawyer, said that the grave had been attacked on Sunday, 21st May, by people who they suspected were to blame for similar attacks, saying they were “known for such distasteful actions in the past”.

The lawyer also said that Mahsa’s dad said that the Iranian authorities stopped them from installing a protective metal structure over the gravestone, threatening to shut down a local welder’s business if he completed the job.

Mahsa, 22, died in hospital in Tehran on 16th September 2022, three days after she was arrested by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict hijab rules.

Her death triggered a wave of protests that spread across the country, with hundreds of people being killed by the authorities in violent crackdowns and thousands of people being arrested by the security forces.

The authorities have called the protests “riots” and claimed they were instigated by foreign powers.

Human rights groups, however, denounced the Iranian authorities for the brutal crackdown on protestors and for putting people to death for taking part in them.