Young Iranian women defy hijab law and write "Women, life, freedom" |
Update 10/15/22 at 6:15pm
Evin prison in Tehran that houses prisoners of conscience is on fire. There are reports of explosions and gunfire. This is developing. Please share.
Security forces opened fire at people who were heading towards Evin prison after reports of fire and explosion in Evin. The Internet is very slow and people cannot send videos.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 15, 2022
Western democratic countries have their own citizens at risk in Evin. Take action#MahsaAmini
Share. Tag. Hashtag. Now. Please. Amplify. https://t.co/BNjl0C2AFI
— Nazanin Nour (@NazaninNour) October 15, 2022
Iran's Evin Prison is on fire & gun shots heard. Prisoners of conscience housed there. Are Mullahs engaging in a massacre of dissidents in a desperate bid to hang on to power? Video taken from @1500tasvir. #Evin #EvinPrison #MahsaAmini #ZhinaAmini #WomenLifeFreedom #مهسا_امینی https://t.co/kvxhTFOcr1 pic.twitter.com/2nla6imdFS
— John Suarez ن (@johnjsuarez) October 15, 2022
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was arrested in Iran by the Morality police on September 13, 2022. They beat her badly, left her in a coma, and she died on September 16th. She was beaten to death for not properly wearing her hijab. A little bit of her hair was visible.
News of her extrajudicial killing at the hand of agents of the Islamist regime in Iran sparked nationwide protests. Iranians are writing a new chapter in the history of their country.
On October 7th Sevda Alizadeh, an Iranian-Dutch singer known professionally as Sevdaliza, released the song video "Women, Life, Freedom."
This is the fourth entry on the 2022 Iranian freedom uprising. The first
was a call to solidarity on September 23rd, the second was on September
24th focusing on some Iranian voices to follow, and the third on October 8th
was an update on the nonviolent uprising.
Tomorrow, October 16th will mark one month since Mahsa's death and the nationwide nonviolent uprising shows no signs of slowing down. Iranian security forces are going into schools and arresting school children, reports The Guardian.
Sadly, repressive forces have shot, tortured, and murdered more young women and men for protesting her killing. This has sparked greater outrage and resolve among Iranians.
Nika Shakarami (age 16) killed by Iranian security forces |
On September 20, 2022, 16-year-old Nika Shakarami went missing in Tehran during protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. Ten days later regime officials informed Nika's family of her death. Mother says she was killed by Iranian security forces.
Hadis Najafi (age 22) was shot and killed by Iranian security forces during protests on September 21, 2022.
Sarina Esmaeilzadeh (age 16) beaten in the head to death with batons |
On September 22, 2022 16-year-old Sarina Esmaeilzadeh joined protests sweeping Iran and was beaten to death by Iranian security forces, reported The Washington Post. She “died after being severely beaten in the head with batons,” according to Amnesty International. At least 23 children have been killed by the Mullah's security forces in Iran over the past month, reports Amnesty International.
PBS News Hour reported, "at least 233 protesters have been killed since demonstrations swept Iran
on Sept. 17, according to U.S.-based rights monitor HRANA. The group
said 32 among the dead were below the age of 18."
Regime response to Iranians outrage has been doubling down to shell cities in Iran, and fire indiscriminately on Iranians. This is the beginning of the end of the Islamist regime in Tehran. Workers at oil refineries "in Asaluyeh, some 925 kilometers (575 miles)
south of Tehran, on the Persian Gulf" on October 10th protested chanting “shameless” and “death to the dictator,” reports the Associated Press.
There is a revolution underway in Iran and its rallying cry is "Women, Life, Freedom." Let us continue to listen to Iranians, and take actions in solidarity with the Iranian freedom movement.
Earlier today Firing Line posted the full episode with exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Last night on CNN Nazanin Boniadi spoke about her own experiences with Iran's morality police when she was a 12 year old girl.“The biggest enemy of the Islamic Republic is not America and Israel. It's women inside Iran.”
— Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) October 15, 2022
Exiled Iranian journalist @AlinejadMasih tells @MargaretHoover why the latest protests could be the beginning of the end for the regime.
FULL EPISODE: https://t.co/fEseNhPpvG pic.twitter.com/IatnvgxrHL
Iranian-born actress @NazaninBoniadi tells CNN’s @jaketapper about her experience with Iran’s morality police at the age of 12 and her appeal to world leaders on behalf of Iranian women and girls. Watch: https://t.co/ZpXJLL3nbI
— CNN (@CNN) October 15, 2022
Video below from Iran posted earlier today by Masih Alinejad.
Horrifying. The Islamic Republic security forces beating and abducting peaceful protesters and shoving them in the trunk of the car.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 15, 2022
This is a crime against humanity.
People just protesting the murder of #MahsaAmini. pic.twitter.com/QvrjDGY17l
The Mullahs in Iran are captured on a video saying the quiet part out loud, and are exposed by Nazanin Afshin-Jam on October 14th.
This video posted on October 13th shows courageous girls walking together to protest against gender apartheid. The girls could be killed by Islamic regime agents for walking unveiled.“God only created women for men to use”. This is the mentality of the Ayatollahs and refime officials in Iran who equate women to cows and sheep and treats them as less than 2nd class citizens. Watch the translated clip below. #IranRevolution2022 https://t.co/egVr2AooMI
— Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay (@NazaninAJ) October 14, 2022
This simple act of #WalkingUnveiled can get you killed in Iran.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 13, 2022
Girls & boys are segregated from the age 7 in schools in Iran. Very soon you will see girls and boys together, shoulder to shoulder will protest against gender apartheid regime.#MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/Kfa64d0rKT
Voices in Western democracies began to try to compare the fight against "patriarchy" with what is going on in Iran and Mariam Memarsadeghi called them out on it on October 11, 2022.
Girls and women in Iran are not fighting "patriarchy" -- they are fighting to bring down a totalitarian Islamist regime. There is no comparing the gender apartheid they suffer to anything women in the West experience. #IranRevolution
— Mariam Memarsadeghi (@memarsadeghi) October 11, 2022
On October 11th Iran democracy activist and artist Mariam Memarsadeghi shares the testimony of Iranian journalist and talkshow host Sima Sabet before the European Parliament. Her demands are ones that Cuban democrats understand and share in the struggle against the dictatorship in Havana
Important testimony from @Sima_Sabet to the EU Parliament. Listen to the end for a list of demands from Iranian political prisoners to Western governments:
— Mariam Memarsadeghi (@memarsadeghi) October 11, 2022
--cut diplomatic relations
--expel diplomats
--prosecute regime officials on your soil #IranRevolution #مهسا_امینی https://t.co/pqsFh97CgK
On October 10th Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad posted video of a young woman and her sister both hit by shotgun pellets fired by Islamist regime agents. Alinejad said that although "reports say 185 Iranians have been killed, including 19 children, in protests over the murder of Mahsa Amini" that she believes the number killed is much higher.
This young woman & her sister both got hit by shotgun pellets. But hear what they say.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 10, 2022
Reports say 185 Iranians have been killed, including 19 children, in protests over the murder of #MahsaAmini but we believe the number is much more than this.#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/mZ16ETIRRk
On October 10th Iranian actress Nazanin Nour posted a video explaining the evolving movement in Iran, and why it is not Islamophobic to support Iranian women burning hijabs.
It’s not Islamophobic to stand in solidarity with the Iranian people. The IRI twisted and perverted religion to their benefit and liking ti use as a tool of oppression. Please amplify the voices of Iranian people. #IranProtests #iranRevolution #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/hd45nM4vt3
— Nazanin Nour (@NazaninNour) October 10, 2022
On October 9th Navid Mohebbi of NUFDI, a non-partisan, non-profit organization representing the Iranian-American community, shared images of some of the Iranians murdered by the Islamist regime in Tehran.
It's hard to watch this video till the end.
— Navid Mohebbi نوید محبی (@navidmohebbi) October 9, 2022
The youth of #Iran are paying a hefty price to gain their freedom. These precious souls dedicated their lives so that their compatriots could be free. We will never forget these faces. 💔😑💔#IranProtests pic.twitter.com/WV0mBgE4Ti
On October 9th in Azad university students engaged in a nonviolent protest against violence and the students wrote only one sentence: “Be our voice”.
This is today in Azad university and the student wrote only one sentence: “Be our voice”.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 9, 2022
This is a message to the free world.
Iranians are getting killed for protesting over the brutal death of my #MahsaAmini but as you see they are not giving up.#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/qm0AGEZREb
Despite the ongoing killings young Iranian women are risking all for freedom.
Amazing to watch another group of young #Iranian women challenging the theocratic dictatorship.
— NUFDI (@NUFDIran) October 9, 2022
This was today in #Tehran#Mahsa_Amini pic.twitter.com/SjsAokyYvQ
When a regime has to wage city-wide military assaults on their own citizens it is on its way out.
The Islamic regime in Iran is exposing the Kurdish city of #Sanandaj to constant shelling and gunfire, but the brave residents of this city are not giving up their fight. The regime knows its end will come.#MahsaAmini
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 9, 2022
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