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"On Sept. 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, died in Tehran,
Iran, while in police custody. Amini was arrested by the Guidance Patrol, the
morality squad of the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran
that oversees public implementation of hijab regulations, for not wearing a
hijab properly.
Soon after the news of her death was broadcast and a photograph emerged on
social media of her lying in a Tehran hospital in a coma, people throughout the
country became enraged.
Amini’s death starkly illustrated the systematic violence of police and
highlighted particularly the brutality of the regime towards women and
minorities. She was Kurdish, a member of one of the most oppressed minority
ethnic groups in Iran.
All Iranian women who are routinely humiliated because of their gender can
empathize with her. But Kurds and Kurdish women in particular understood the
political message of her death at the hands of police and the state’s
subsequent violent response to the protests.
The huge wave of protests in Iran following Amini’s death represents a historic
moment in Iran. People have taken to the streets shouting slogans against the
compulsory hijab and denouncing Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
Protests have raged in 31 provinces, including Kurdistan and Tehran as well as
cities such as Rasht, Isfahan and Qom, among Iran’s most conservative
communities. Dozens of people have been killed by security forces and hundreds
more have been arrested."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
