2023-09-14 07:45:00
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A year after the death of Mahsa Amini, despite the regime’s repression which still rages, the Iranian women’s revolution continues. Testimonials.
By Armin Arefi A young Iranian woman defies the obligation to wear the veil in the Grand Bazaar of Tehran on July 19. © Hossein Beris Published on 09/14/2023 at 7:45 a.m.
His determination commands respect. In September 2022, the writer Golrokh Iraee, who has already spent six years in the jails of the Islamic Republic for “insult to the sacred”takes part in the demonstrations following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old young woman who died after being arrested by the moral police because of a poorly worn veil.
Already targeted by the government for having written a short story where a woman burns a Koran in order to protest against the stoning of an Iranian woman, the 43-year-old activist walks the streets of the capital to cries of “Woman, life, freedom!” »the slogan of the revolt. “What was striking was the central and extensive presence of women, after years of humiliation and exclusion from social spheres in Iran, but also of men demanding…
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