[Cet article est extrait de notre numéro spécial “Nous les femmes”, dédié à des paroles d’autrices sur la condition des femmes à travers le monde.]
Mahsa Amin, a young woman from Kurdistan in northwestern Iran, was only 22 when she died in suspicious circumstances in Tehran. Pronounced September 16, her death was attributed to brain damage received while in police custody. She had apparently been arrested for wearing her headscarf in such a way “wrong”.
Mahsa’s death is the final blow to this long-abused people. People are struggling to have their basic rights respected and the careless taking of a young woman’s life and then covering up the facts has provoked great anger in the country because it totally echoes what we are going through. What we are witnessing in Iran is by far the biggest protest against the hijab in modern history: some women are cutting their hair or burning their headscarves to oppose the morality police.
Women abused for forty-three years
Mahsa died exactly six months after my release and return to the UK. When I found my home and my family after six years of captivity [quatre ans de prison puis deux ans en résidence surveillée], it was a euphoric day but also bittersweet because I thought of those who had remained. For me, the injustice of Mahsa’s death is once again a reminder of the conditions in which the population lives. It takes a lot of courage and resilience to be Iranian and stay that way, but also a lot of patience. Even after what I’ve been through for the past six years, I couldn’t be prouder to say I’m Iranian this week.
For forty-three years the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed the veil and denied women the right to decide what
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