#hijab protest in iran

[ohnoimonfire]

i was actually scared to post this, so if you have anything hateful to say, please do not interact with this post. thank you!

let's talk about mahsa amini.

so i'm sure you've all heard the name recently: she's been in the news a lot, because she was an iranian woman who died.

let's ask google how she died, shall we?

hm.

i'm going to have to disagree with you there, state authorities of iran.

mahsa amini was 22 years old. on the 13th of september, she travelled to tehran to visit her family with her brother, kiaresh amini. she was at the entrance of the hiqqani highway when she was arrested.

but why was she arrested? was she speeding on hiqqani highway or something?

oh no, of course not! it was because she was wearing her hijab "inappropriately".

she was told she'd be taken to a detention centre for a "briefing class" and released shortly afterwards, except she never made it. instead she was at kasra hospital - where she died on friday, febuary 16th.

she was in a coma for three days.

in an instagram post which has now been deleted, the hospital admitted she was brain dead on arrival.

"Resuscitation was performed on the patient, the heartbeat returned and the patient was admitted to the intensive care unit," they originally wrote, reports The Guardian. "Unfortunately, after 48 hours on Friday, the patient suffered a cardiac arrest again, due to brain death. Despite the efforts of the medical team, they failed to revive her and the patient died." - Harper's Bazaar

the "guidance patrol" who was supposed to be taking her to a detention centre, beat her.

the iranian police commander, hossein rahimi, claims that amini's death was simply an "unfortunate accident."

here's what amini's dad had to say.

“They said Mahsa had heart disease and epilepsy but as the father who raised her for 22 years, I say loudly that Mahsa did not have any illness. She was in perfect health. The person who hit my daughter should be put on trial in a public court, not a fake trial that results in reprimands and expulsions."

and all of this, such a brutal death covered up with attempted lies because of what?

a hijab.

iran has made the hijab mandatory since 1976.

and clearly, women who don't follow end up like amini.

i am a hijabi teenager, living far, far away of iran, and i think that's disgustingly wrong.

i wear a hijab for my lord. it was my decision.

wearing a hijab is for Allah. it's not for men. it's not for police.

and you, as a man, have no right to tell a woman how to wear her hijab.

you think Allah is pleased with you? for forcing these women to wear hijab? for killing them if you don't?

personally, i highly doubt it.

to any man who has forced a woman to wear a hijab, punishing her for not wearing it correctly, you are disgusting. you terrify me and disgust me and you are the reason people see islam as a terrorist religion.

and to think that in france, women are fighting to wear the hijab.

for god's sake, just let women wear what they want.

please.

[greater-than-the-sword]

You are spreading fake news about Iran, they are not about to execute 15,000 imprisoned protestors.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/world-verify/iran-15000-protesters-not-sentenced-to-death-fact-check/536-9b21be3b-62aa-4793-91c7-799872cbdef7

Thank you for the link. Since posting the viral post I have been made aware that the passage of the statement calling for harsher penalties is not the same thing as passing an actual sentence, even in a country like Iran, which I have already acknowledged numerous times. I will likely continue to be told this over and over again ad nauseum despite immediately having posted on the same night an update where I found out that the protesters had not actually been formally sentenced and the decree was not a judicial sentencing.

So the Newsweek headline is wrong/misleading, was reported in error, etc. You could try bringing that to the attention of the article publisher, MSN.

However, even the very article that you’ve linked me, while correctly denying that the protesters have been sentenced, admits that,

“However, human rights groups warn that future sentences could be handed down without warning or due process.”

and

The same group of experts, in an open letter, said that even without sentences yet, the sheer number of people being charged with crimes that could eventually carry the death penalty is concerning.

As far as anyone can tell at this point, the declaration from their legislature to the courts is a call for large numbers of executions. Iran’s penalties tend to already be very harsh, and so this sort of statement for harsher penalties while invoking Islamic judicial concepts like “enemies of God” is very concerning.

So, while they have not been sentenced, the protesters are not out of the woods by any means and concern for them is warranted. I have learned the headline is misleading but what I really don’t want people to get out of this is “oh- never mind, totally fake, Iran would never do something like that, I can forget about/ignore it”. The reporting jumped the gun, but this is not coming from nowhere.

[kp777]

Rights groups this week condemned Iran's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests, with Human Rights Watch on Wednesday publishing a report claiming hundreds of people—including numerous children—have been killed or wounded in recent weeks.

[the-revolution-democracy]

Female students in Tehran chanted "get lost" as Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited their university campus on Saturday and condemned protesters enraged by the death of a young woman in custody

[pineapplecrispy]

As of now telegram, Twitter, tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit and soon enough whatsapp are blocked in here; that means no social media whatsoever

The VPNs we use are failing one after the other; And the internet speed is gradually getting less and less and less

Once they cut us off the massacre will begin

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[kropotkindersurprise]

October 3, 2022 - Protesting Iranian schoolgirls kick their pro-government school director out of their schoolgrounds. Students across Iran have been occupying their schools in protest after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. [video]

[theraddiakhbar]

The Reason Behind the Hijab Protest in Iran

The Reason Behind the Hijab Protest in Iran

Following the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who was arrested by the “moral police” for not wearinga “decent” hijab, there have been widespread anti-hijab demonstrations by women in Iran. As the Supreme Court of India hears petitions to defend the right of female students inKarnataka to wear hijabs in classrooms, Iran sees widespread demonstrations against the Hijabrestrictions. After the death of…

[luminalunii97]

saying F U to the regime again and again: a quick update on women vs IR regime

Famous Iranian actresses have been appearing in public without a mandatory hijab. This has been happening since the beginning of the protests. Last month, Kiumars Pourahmad, a well known Iranian screenwriter and director, committed suicide. He had a history of criticizing the regime's political decisions. At his funeral, some of the famous actresses attended without mandatory hijab.

You can see Fateme Motamedarya, Katayoun Riyahi, and Golab Adineh in these pictures from the funeral. Ms. Riyahi was one of the first celebrities who took her hijab off at the start of the Jina (Mahsa) Amini protest and for that she's been the target of IRGC harassment and has been to court.

Last week, in the ceremony of screening of the final episode of Lion's Skin (a persian crime show), actress Pantea Bahram participated without hijab. The manager of Tehran’s Lotus Cinema, where the ceremony was held, was fired for letting her attend without hijab.

Other than prosecution, the regime has blocked these celebrities' bank accounts. Basij and IRGC members have also attacked and harassed these women online and in real life.

Students on university campuses take off their hijabs. There's an installed version of morality police in universities that monitor students' styles. Female students must wear "appropriate" hijab and male students must wear "manly" clothes (one of my guy friends once was asked to go back home and change his shoes because they were red casual loafers. Apparently that's gay!). When you enroll in Iranian universities, the first thing you do is to go to the security office and sign an agreement that says you promise to follow the Islamic dress code. There are posters all over the campus that says things like "hijab is security" "respect the islamic hijab" and "not wearing appropriate hijab (tight short clothes, too much hair, makeup, etc) would result in legal action". So not wearing hijab on campus, where a lot of security cameras are installed and it's easy to identify you, is a big deal.

The regime's response to students taking off their hijabs is sending threatening messages to students' phones and increasing the security people. At the entrance of Universities, these security forces check people's clothes and if it's not proper they won't let you in. Some of the students wear the hijab at the entrance and take it off after they're in. They have warned our professors to not let non hijabi students sit in classes too.

One of my favorite trends in Iran now is when guys wear our hijab. These pictures are from universities. Guys wearing hijab make the security mad. This is a great act of solidarity with women against the obligatory hijab.

Some men have been doing either this or wearing shorts in public. The former is to ridicule the obligatory dress code and the latter is because wearing shorts in public is forbidden for guys too.

And women not wearing hijab in general. Though hijab is not our only issue, we want a whole new political system, one that is not theocratic or terroristic, hijab is something the regime won't back down from because it's one of their strongest oppressing tools. If they let us win the fight against obligatory hijab, I quote from a regime head, "people keep demanding more changes"!

So to put people against people to enforce the hijab law again, the regime has closed down many businesses (hotels, cafes, malls, bookstores, etc) for welcoming non hijabi female costumers. They have also warned taxi and bus drivers to not let non hijabi women in their vehicles.

Although not everyone is disobeying the hijab law (some believe in hijab, some don't want to pay the price), the number of women who take the risk and don't wear hijab in Tehran and many other cities is high enough that you feel encouraged to keep doing it.

[odinsblog]

Studying at Tehran University in 1977: While many women were already in higher education at the time of the revolution, the subsequent years saw a marked increase in the number attending university. This was in part because the authorities managed to convince conservative families living in rural areas to allow their daughters to study away from home.

"They tried to stop women from attending university, but there was such a backlash they had to allow them to return," says Baroness Haleh Afshar, a professor of women's studies at the University of York who grew up in Iran in the 1960s.

"Some educated people left Iran, and the authorities realised in order to run the country they needed to educate both men and women."

Window shopping in Tehran in 1976: Before the revolution, the hijab was already widely worn but many women also chose to don Western-style clothes, including tight-fitting jeans, miniskirts and short-sleeved tops. "The shoes haven't changed - and the passion for shoes is in all of us! Women in Iran are no different from women the world over, and going shopping is just a means for women to get away from every day stress," says Prof Afshar.

Friday picnic in Tehran in 1976: Families and friends tend to get together on Fridays, which are weekend days in Iran. "Picnics are an important part of Iranian culture and are very popular amongst the middle classes. This has not changed since the revolution. The difference is, nowadays, men and women sitting together are much more self-aware and show more restraint in their interactions," says Prof Afshar.

Hair salon in Tehran in 1977: "This is a scene you would no longer expect to see in Iran - but even after the Islamic Revolution, hairdressers continued to exist," says Prof Afshar. "Nowadays you wouldn't see a man inside the hairdressers - and women would know to cover up their hair as soon as they walked out the door. Some people may also operate secret salons in their own homes where men and women can mix."

Bodyguards surround the shah in 1971: A young woman approaches Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (far right) at a huge party marking the 2,500th anniversary of the Persian monarchy - the extravagance of the event was widely condemned by his left-wing and clerical opponents. "By this time, the shah was already very much disliked and some believe this image of excess and indulgence may have contributed to events leading up to the revolution eight years later," Prof Afshar explains.

Walking down a snowy street in Tehran in 1976: "You cannot stop women walking in the streets of Iran, but you wouldn't see this today - her earrings and make up so clearly on show," Prof Afshar says. "There is this concept of 'decency' in Iran - so nowadays women walking in the streets are likely to wear a coat down to her knees and a scarf."

Women rally against the hijab in 1979: Soon after taking power, Iran's new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini decreed that all women had to wear the veil - regardless of religion or nationality. On 8 March - International Women's Day - thousands of women from all walks of life turned out to protest against the law.

Walking in Tehran in 2005: Not all women in Iran opt to wear the black chador, a cloak that covers the body from head to toe and only leaves the face exposed. Many prefer to wear loosely fitted headscarves and coats. "The real question is how far back do you push your scarf? Women have their own small acts of resistance and often try as far as possible to push their scarves back," says Prof Afshar.

Watching football from a Tehran shopping centre in 2008: Though women were never officially banned from watching men's football matches in Iran, they are often refused entry to stadiums and some of those who have tried have been detained. Before the revolution, women were allowed to attend sporting events.

SEPTEMBER 2022: Protests, after the Morality Police beat, arrested and then murdered Mahsa Amini — for the “crime” of improperly wearing her hijab (source) (source)

[mosscreektarot]

If you aren't aware of what is happening in Iran, please take a moment to learn about the anti forced hijab protests and the deaths of numerous women and protestors fighting for the rights of women and girls.

To the protestors: Your voice and your power is creating a world that is safe and free for women and girls everywhere. You are changing your country and the world for generations to come. Bless you all for your bravery <3 . Please stay safe.

[politijohn]

Source

Remarkable protests happening in Iran right now amongst brave women and children against a dangerous authoritative government.

The media has done a terrible job covering this pivotal moment in the Middle East

[sleepy-bebby]

19-year-old celebrity chef Mehrshad Shahidi also called Iran's Jamie Oliver was beaten to death by security forces amid anti-hijab protests in the country.

"Our son lost his life as a result of receiving baton blows to his head after his arrest, but we have been under pressure by the regime to say that he has died of a heart attack", a relative of Mehrshad told Iran International TV. His family also said that officials had pushed them to say to the public that Mehrshad Shahidi died of a heart attack.

[godofstory]

maybe this fucking meme would make tumblrians to listen?

[without-ado]

Mahsa Amini (22) fell into a coma and died last week, hours after the morality police held her for allegedly breaking hijab rules. According to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention center. Protests have broken out in over 20 cities in Iran.

l Women, Life, Freedom Javad Takjoo l Protests in Iran, Nasrin Sheykhi l No to forcing women to wear the hijab, Jawad Morad

(via cartoonmovement)