Young Iranians are protesting against the regime that murders women ‘for their own good’
Murdered: Mahsa Amini.
Brace yourself, because this won’t be easy to watch or read.
Last night (September 29), on Late Night Mash, comedian Shaparak (Shappi) Khorsandi delivered an impassioned attack on the so-called morality police in her homeland of Iran.
These are people who murder women for failing to cover their hair completely. Watch:
For more context on this, here’s another comedian from Iran, Omid Djalili:
2/. Ghazale Chelavi, a 32 year old mountaineer shot in the head in Amol city after chanting “we are all Masha Amini” pic.twitter.com/mIQB6bnAn5
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) September 26, 2022
4/. Mahsa Mogoi, aged 18, died in Isfahan during the protests, shot by Iranian security forces. pic.twitter.com/DtsLY3MCWc
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) September 26, 2022
6/. Use hashtag #Mahsa_Amini not #Masha her name was MAHSA. A real chance to get awareness out about this urgent issue. Tho it’s Iran 🇮🇷 it’s not just a Middle Eastern issue it’s a global human rights issue so like @yungblud & @DUALIPA feel free to share your own posts & thoughts
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) September 26, 2022
The message needs to get out. And yes I’m very happy to upset a small minority in the short term if long term change takes place. Be the voice of the women in Iran. And follow my badass sister @AlinejadMasih 👊🏼#مهسا_امینی #Mahsa_Amini #OpIran #IranProtests #IranRevolution2022 pic.twitter.com/yuTUtjeCL3
— Omid Djalili (@omid9) September 29, 2022
Bear in mind that he said 41 people had died four days ago. By yesterday that death toll had more than doubled:
Protests continue in a number of cities across Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the so-called ‘morality’ police. 83 people including children have been killed. ‘Morality’ seems to mean what clothes you wear, not how you treat kids and young women.
— John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) September 29, 2022
Thousands of Iranians are protesting – and risking their lives to do so – but people across the world are taking action as well.
Here in the UK, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years, cut her hair in a gesture of solidarity with women in and from Iran who have thrown away their hijabs to do the same:
"For my mother, for my daughter, for the fear of solitary confinement, for the women of my country, for freedom." https://t.co/NKittaZeLL
— BBC London (@BBCLondonNews) September 28, 2022
This should provide some context for her act:
What a remarkable image. The daughter of Minoo Majidi–a mother of two who was killed by the Iranian regime while protesting for #MahsaAmini–stands at her mother's gravesite. She is defiantly unveiled, and in her left hand she holds the hair she cut from her head. pic.twitter.com/QPqHGk4MDy
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) September 30, 2022
Other people have done other things:
n memory of Mahsa Amini 🖤 I wrote her name with my Fixie bike in Farsi using Persian Script. Her death, on September 16, 2022, at the hands of Iran's "morality" police, has sparked nationwide anti-government protest. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #FixieGPSArtByKuba pic.twitter.com/TaJEBq3Drh
— Jakub Mosur (@JakubMosur) September 26, 2022
Iranian National Football(soccer) team wears all black to cover their country's colors in protest of the death of Mahsa Amini. pic.twitter.com/eicXK2pcJU
— Chris Walker (@WalkerATX) September 27, 2022
If people in Iran are risking their lives to make a stand against this, then people elsewhere can certainly do something in solidarity.
Will you? Or do you think it’s all right because it isn’t happening to you?
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