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Since the murder of Jina-Mahsa Amini on September 16 by the morality police, a popular uprising unprecedented in its scope, depth and duration has shaken the Islamic Republic of Iran. In less than 48 hours, the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” spread throughout the country, then around the world. (...)
THE THREE DAYS of protests announced by Iranian university students early in December to mark Student Day was a clever choice. They knew it was not going to be supported by royalists. Student Day commemorates three leftwing students, Ahmad Ghandchi, Shariat-Razavi and Bozorg-Nia, who had been (...)
It was July 2020, following the protests of the previous years, the retired spontaneously organized a rally in front of the Social Security Organization and demanded an increase in salaries according to inflation, efficient insurance and free health care system, etc. thanks to their continuing (...)
Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF) is pleased to host the appeal launched by Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran (SSTI). Don’t forget to write “Solidarity Iran” on your checks or money transfers, as the non-dedicated donations we receive go to the Permanent Solidarity Fund for Asia of (...)
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ON OCTOBER 16, 2022 Suzi Weissman interviewed Yassamine Mather on the demonstrations following Jina (Mahsa) Amini’s murder for Jacobin Radio. Arrested by Iran’s morality police for wearing a hijab too loosely, Amini was beaten to death and died in the hospital on September 16.
The (...)
The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic State’s history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution.
On July 14, 1789, when the revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille in France, Louis XVI asked the Duc de La (...)
The murder of Mahsa Jina Amini on 16 September by the “morals police“ for an ill-adjusted lock of hair triggered a vast popular movement of protest and rejection of the Islamic Republic.
This murder was the “last drop of blood” that broke the camel’s back. For nearly 60 days, women, young people, (...)
After more than 50 days of demonstrations, the mobilization continues in Iran, in the face of a destabilised regime that is strengthening its repressive measures every day.
When it was established in 1979, the Islamic regime declared that it wanted to put an end to the domination of the (...)
We, Ukrainian feminists, express our solidarity with Iranian uprising, triggered by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian moral police. Thousands of women responded to this crime by going out on the streets, cutting their hair and publicly taking off and burning hijabs as a symbol of (...)
In support of the uprising in Iran, a coordination of left-wing and feminist groups has been formed in France, bringing together several collectives such as the feminist queer and anti-capitalist collective in which Sarah, interviewed by Diego Moustaki for l’Anticapitaliste, participates.
Can (...)
Since 16 September Iran has been thrown into turmoil by widespread protests against the policies of the ruling clique. They were triggered by the brutal murder of the young woman Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, who was beaten to death by the “morality police”. The duration and the expansion of the (...)
Soheyla, an activist of Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran (SSTI - France based), answered our questions during the demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian people, on Sunday 9 October in Paris. Interview by Antoine Larrache.
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What are the origins of this (...)
Anger is growing in Iran following the murder on 16 September of the young Masha Jina AMINI by the Vice religious Police. When her death was announced, protests took place in the Kurdish region where she was born, as well as in Tehran and several universities in the country.
In the immediate (...)
After more than two weeks of protests, the street demonstrations are not only continuing, but intensifying. Slogans calling for the fall of the regime are becoming more and more numerous. In addition to their massive participation in the daily demonstrations, more and more young women are (...)
ON WEDNESDAY, September 28, the Middle East news site Jadaliyya hosted a live conversation on its Facebook and YouTube channels with five feminist scholars of Iran and its diasporas to discuss the current anti-government protests, sparked by the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Kurdish (...)
Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran.
These protests have echoes from past resistance movements. For the past two (...)
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (...)
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab (...)
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (...)
This interview is republished from Il Manifesto who spoke about the uprising with Fariborz Kamkari, a Kurdish-Iranian director, author of the films The Flowers of Kirkuk and Being Kurdish, among others, and the novel Return to Iran.
It’s not easy to get accurate news of the uprising that has (...)
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