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Video | Young women take center stage in Iran protests and challenge the Islamic regime

2022-10-10T11:52:48.931Z


The students have taken to the streets under the chants of "death to the dictator", they have hung signs on the roads and are removing their veils


Three weeks after protests broke out in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, female students have become the protagonists of the revolt.

In this video that accompanies the news, you can see girls and boys shouting chants of "death to the dictator" at the end of classes and meetings in some schoolyards denouncing Iranian police aggression.

Last weekend, a group of students gathering to demonstrate against the mandatory wearing of the hijab were cornered by riot police in an underground parking lot of Sharif University of Technology.

Later, they were arrested.

Since then, some groups of younger students, such as high school students, have taken over the protests.

The girls have taken off their veils, hanging protest posters on the roads and trampling on images of the country's leader, Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, has assured that the strong dissemination of the protests on social networks has encouraged young people to participate in the mobilizations.

Since the start of the demonstrations, the Iranian regime has intensified its crackdown, detaining the most active participants and imposing harsh restrictions on access to social media.

The NGO Human Rights Watch has verified 16 videos published on social networks in which "police and other security forces use excessive and lethal force against protesters."

At least 1,500 people have been arrested and more than 130 protesters have been killed in recent days.

"Iran's prisons were already full of political prisoners, and now jails and detention centers are filled with protesters, as authorities move to quash social outcry over government repression and brutality," Hadi said. Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

Source: elparis

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