Hillary Clinton backs Iranian women at NY event
STORY: The event took place on New York's Roosevelt Island, where Clinton launched her failed 2016 presidential candidacy.
The event, "Eyes on Iran," featured installations calling attention to the activism and victims in Iran during months of protest.
Demonstrations erupted after the death in custody of 22-year old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini on Sept. 16.
Activist news agency HRANA said 450 protesters had been killed in more than two months of nationwide unrest as of Nov. 26, including 63 minors. It said 60 members of the security forces had been killed, and 18,173 protesters detained.
"Their fight is our fight," Clinton said.
While speaking, Clinton also revisited her proclamation from her time as U.S. first lady in which she said in Beijing, "women's rights are human rights."
The protests in Iran have particularly focused on women's rights - Amini was detained by morality police for attire deemed inappropriate under Iran's Islamic dress code - but have also called for the fall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The current unrest has posed one of the boldest challenges to Iran's clerical ruling elite since it came to power in the 1979 Islamic revolution, though authorities have crushed previous rounds of major protests.
