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In Iran, a women's revolution is underway despite repression

2023-01-15T18:27:47.494Z


STORY - Four months after the death of Mahsa Amini, the processions are withering but determined women are working to smash the taboos of the Islamic Republic.


Correspondent in Istanbul

In his backpack, a survival kit at hand: bandages, saline, changing clothes.

The other day again, Mina (pseudonym) caught it in one go as soon as she received a text message.

A small rally was improvised near her home, in Shiraz, to denounce the hanging, on Saturday January 7, of two new demonstrators.

Once her sneakers on her feet, she rushed towards the crowd, shouting

“The pervert, it's you!

The immoral is you!

The free woman is me!”,

in the face of the police.

The words flew by themselves, like hissing bullets.

“Every time I surprise myself.

I'm shaking like a leaf, and yet I keep shouting slogans.

It's stronger than me!"

, confides, via Skype, this 29-year-old graphic designer.

Four months already, that she goes down to demonstrate as soon as the opportunity arises.

Four months of fear, rage and passion.

Like an irrepressible wave, where Iranian women play an unprecedented role.

"Instead…

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Source: lefigaro

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