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"A friend and I were strolling through Tehran’s streets one afternoon when she
was approached by a member of the “morality police,” an agency tasked with
enforcing modesty laws in public. First, the policewoman warned her to cover
her hair by pulling forward her scarf. Next, she was ordered to remove her
sunglasses.
“What do you have there?” the policewoman asked loudly, examining my friend’s
green eyes for makeup. There was none, but her stare was full of hate. “Behave
yourself!” the policewoman warned.
As we walked away, my friend stopped, turned and looked back at her, pulling
the scarf back again while putting her sunglasses back on. Her husband
lamented, “Woman, one of these days you will be arrested, and if lucky you will
be alive when I come to pick you up from the police station.”
This was 30 years ago. Similar scenes still play out daily. Since mid-September
2022, when a young woman named Mahsa Amini died in detention after being
detained for not wearing her headscarf “properly,” protests against the
morality police and the broader regime have erupted across the country and from
sympathizers around the world.
Acts of defiance, big and small, have continued uninterrupted across multiple
generations. Women’s activism has been constant, as has their imprisonment."
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
