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, by MAHDAVI Pardis
Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran.
These protests have echoes from past resistance movements. For the past (…)
, by AJANG Bahman
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (…)
, by STRZYŻYŃSKA Weronika
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab (…)
, by AJANG Bahman
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (…)
, by CRUCIATI Chiara, KAMKARI Fariborz
This interview is republished from Il Manifesto who spoke about the uprising with Fariborz Kamkari, a Kurdish-Iranian director, author of the films The Flowers of Kirkuk and Being Kurdish, among others, and the novel Return to Iran.
It’s not easy to get accurate news of the uprising that has (…)
, by MUSTAFA Balsam
Iranian authorities have cracked down on protests which erupted after the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing the hijab appropriately. The death of Mahsa Amini who was reportedly beaten after being arrested for wearing her hijab (…)
, by WINTOUR Patrick
Kurdistan governor blames deaths on ‘plot by the enemy’ on fourth day of protests over 22-year-old’s death in custody
Protests across Iran after 22-year-old woman dies in police detention – video
Iranian government officials have denounced a fourth day of protests after the death of a (…)
, by KELLY Annie, The Guardian
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was travelling with her family from Iran’s western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she fell foul of Iran’s notorious morality police. Stopped for failing to meet the required standards for wearing the mandatory (…)
, by HOOSHYARI Laya
In the years that the people of Iran have lived under the flag of tyranny of the Islamic Republic, they have faced all kinds of repressions and violence. With the inauguration of Ibrahim Raeesi as president in 2021, the executioner of the 1990s who led the murder of thousands of militant (…)
, by AFARY Frieda
The murder of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman, by the Tehran morality police has sparked large protests in various cities inside Iran. The 22 year old Amini was arrested on September 13 because of her “improper” hijab and died shortly thereafter when she went into a coma following (…)
, by STRZYŻYŃSKA Weronika
The country faces a litany of problems, from inflation to a democratic deficit, and the women’s movement is seen as an agent of change
On the day that news of Mahsa Amini’s death spread throughout Iran, a young woman with a shaved head joined protesters who had gathered outside Kasra hospital, (…)
, by SOTOUDEH Nasrin
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh warns America: “As someone who lived through this loss of freedom and democracy, I can offer a warning: It will not end with this Supreme Court decision on abortion.”
Nasrin Sotoudeh in Tehran, Iran. Being outside without a hijab, Sotoudeh is (…)
, by CGAS (Genève), CGT, FSU, SSP Genève, Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
On the occasion of the annual conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO), the undersigned labour organisations call for a rally in front of the headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, on Friday 10 June 2022. The labour organisations hereby protest against the new repressive (…)
, by JONES Eileen
Asghar Farhadi’s brilliant drama is about a young man trying to buy his freedom from debtors’ prison — the kind of depiction of working-class struggle that’s at the heart of some of the greatest cinema.
There’s a harrowing Iranian drama called A Hero currently playing on Amazon, and it’s (…)
, by KELLEHER Patrick
An Iranian gay man was brutally murdered and beheaded by his family in a horrific “honour killing” after they found out he was gay.
Alireza Fazeli-Monfared, 20, was reportedly murdered by his brother and cousins on Tuesday (4 May) after they discovered the Iranian military exempted him from (…)
, by MOTAMEDI Maziar
Decades-old sexual trauma is being unearthed in a society that rarely speaks about it but can change come to fruition?
Tehran, Iran – Countless Iranians have taken to social media in recent weeks to recount their experiences of sexual abuse, bringing to the fore a topic that remained taboo (…)
, by ARAB Pooyan Tamimi, MALEKI Ammar
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline.
Reliable large-scale data on (…)
, by KETCHELL Misha
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline.
Reliable large-scale data (…)
, by International Labour Network of Solidarity and Struggles
Iran is particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the representatives in France of the Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran explained the catastrophic situation: «the hospitals are overwhelmed and lacking in resources; precarious populations are deprived of incomes; the (…)
, by CFDT, CGT, FSU, Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
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