2023-11-01 09:30:00
Her name was Armita Garawand, she was 17 years old. His crime: taking the metro without a veil. Despite the death of Mahsa Amini more than a year ago and the massive protest movement that followed in the Islamic Republic of Iran, wearing the Islamic veil still remains compulsory for girls and women, from the age of 9 years.
Armita Garawand was arrested on October 1: on video surveillance images, we see her being dragged unconscious out of the Tehran metro. She died on October 28 after spending a month in a coma in Fajr military hospital. His case received media coverage: several newspapers reported on the affair, without however incriminating the regime. Furthermore, an MP called for Parliament to take up the subject. Many opposition figures were present at his funeral, including lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. She was arrested and returned to prison – she had already been incarcerated several times – despite her fragile health.
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What the regime fears more than anything is a resumption of demonstrations in Iran. With great repression, the authorities succeeded in partly suppressing the women’s protest, widely supported by all youth and various layers of society. But the fire is smoldering: acts of civil disobedience have never stopped: tags, cries of protest in the evening on the rooftops, activism on social networks, clandestine gatherings and above all women leaving without the veil.
Many of them defy the diet on a daily basis by simply going shopping, taking a walk or picking up their children from school. The Islamic Republic has repressed young people by sentencing them to death after summary trials, it has allowed this to happen if not caused a wave of poisonings of young girls in schools, it has threatened to close businesses for having accepted women without veils.
The morality police, officially suspended for a few weeks, have resumed their activities with all possible vigor. On the occasion of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death, Hadi Ghaemi, director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, assured: “There is a huge appetite among the population to demonstrate against the regime, maintains Hadi Ghaemi. Life economic, political and social situation of the Iranians continues to deteriorate.”
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Since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, the risk posed by the Tehran regime has become more visible than ever to everyone. “Given the current crisis, Iranian leaders feel even stronger because they believe they have succeeded in diverting attention from internal criticism and internal repression, by becoming or claiming to have become vocal defenders of the Palestinian movement “, said Javaid Rehman, rapporteur on human rights in Iran at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on November 1, during a round table in Washington.
The Islamic Republic funds terrorist organizations, such as Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah. Iran sought to permanently destabilize the region, while Israel’s normalization of relations with countries in the Arab world threatened its regional position. What Iran is doing to Iranian women is just one manifestation of the toxicity of the Islamic regime in the Middle East today. The problem of Iranian women is now the problem of the whole world.
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