Narges Mohammadi. Reishane Taravati
PORTRAIT – This Iranian activist, winner of the RSF Courage Prize, continues in prison her fight which, for almost six months, finds a singular echo in the movement “Woman, Life, Freedom”.
His name, like a mantra, scrolls from lip to lip. Not a day goes by without Narges Mohammadi, an imprisoned 49-year-old activist, being cited at the turn of a demonstration, without his mail-brains escaping discreetly from his cell in Evin. “Long live Narges Mohammadi!”intoned a student from Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran last week, before unleashing a deluge of “Knowledge, Freedom, Freedom” (“Woman, Life, Freedom”) in a crowded amphitheater. The slogan, so universal, so modern, of the Iranian revolt provoked on September 16 by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini, arrested and manhandled for a “badly worn veil”, slams like a shield of words against the sword of the theocratic power in place for forty-four years. It sums it all up: the fed up of young people connected to the world, their rage for life, and the long fight for more equality of which this seasoned activist is at the forefront.
“She is an inspirational role model. For his altruism…
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