But murdering and killing didn’t stop the protests. Students filmed themselves burning their headscarves, but they got killed. Here’s a CNN video report on Nika Shahkarami, whose family found her body at a morgue after not being able to find her for 10 days following an Instagram story of her burning her headscarf.) There are reports of multiple young women killed. (CNN has reported that Najafi’s family said she was shot six times and never made it home from a protest. In the future, if I see that Iran has changed, that change came, then I was proudly part of this demonstration.
She made a video of herself walking in the street and saying I’m joining the protests. One of the young women whose name was Hadis Najafi, she was only 20 years old. They were holding the names and photos of those who got killed and the major slogan was this: ‘We are ready to die, but we won’t live under humiliation.’ Actually, it changed the tone of the protesters. Regarding death tolls: CNN cannot independently verify the death toll – a precise figure is impossible for anyone outside the Iranian government to confirm – and different estimates have been given by opposition groups, international rights organizations and local journalists.)ĪLINEJAD: The Iranian regime cut off the internet in some cities to prevent the rest of the world from getting to know about the crackdown, to get to learn about the number of people killed.īut again. Related CNN report : Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say.Īmnesty International has reported on the killing of 66 in Zahedan along with other deaths recorded in other places. (CNN has not verified all of these claims. They killed more than 80 people in Zahedan. Only in Zahedan on only one day, they opened fire on those who were praying. But it’s strongly believed the number is much more than this. Now some reports say more than 130 people have been killed. They opened fire, they really opened fire on teenagers, school leaders, university students, they opened fire on unarmed people. How have things changed in the weeks since Mahsa’s death?ĪLINEJAD: From the beginning, the level of crackdown was so brutal. We see video that gets out of Iran of these protests.
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WHAT MATTERS: The Iranian government has tried to crack down on this. Iran’s crackdown has not stopped protests To me, this is a women’s revolution against a gender apartheid regime. And now, with men, shoulder to shoulder, across Iran they’re not only saying no to compulsory hijab, they are actually chanting against the dictator and they are saying we want an end to the Islamic Republic. Then they took to the street and they started to burn their headscarves. And that is why women across Iran first started to cut their hair. (Here is a CNN report in which the Iranian police deny the allegation she was beaten.)ĪLINEJAD: That created huge anger among Iranians. Mahsa was arrested for wearing inappropriate hijab. Then she got arrested by the so-called morality police – because I call them the hijab police.Īnd for your audience, if they don’t know what morality police means, they’re a bunch of police walking in the streets, telling people whether their way of wearing hijab is proper or not. … She came from Saqqez to Tehran for a vacation. Can you first just explain what’s happening?ĪLINEJAD: Mahsa Amini was only 22 years old. WHAT MATTERS: This newsletter is not usually focused on Iran. ‘A women’s revolution against a gender apartheid regime’ I’ve also added some context and links in parentheses where appropriate. Our conversation, edited for clarity and length, is below. She sees solidarity with dissidents from other oil-rich autocracies like Russia and Venezuela, and has a stern message for feminists in the West.To Alinejad, that women in Iran are removing their headscarves as an act of protest is equal to the fall of the Berlin Wall.US authorities charged four Iranian nationals with trying to kidnap her last year.She uses social media – 8 million followers on Instagram alone – to amplify and aid the protests inside Iran.
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