FATAH: Iranian women are burning their hijabs — let's show support for them Via TarekFatah
In today’s context, there is a revolution taking place in the ‘Islamic’ Republic of Iran, where the Ayatollahs have operated an Islamic dictatorship since 1979, built upon the skeletons of tens of thousands of Iranians killed for opposing the Islamic regime and whose bodies lie in mass graves. Countless other Iranians are today living in exile in the West, including in Canada.From our newsroom to your inbox at noon, the latest headlines, stories, opinion and photos from the Toronto Sun.
, a 54-year-old Canadian freelance journalist of Iranian origin who was beaten, tortured and raped before she died in 2003 while in custody in Iran.Article content Today, Iran is led by President Ebrahim Raisi. He has been accused by Amnesty International of having been a member of the “death commission”, which forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed in secret thousands of political dissidents in the Evin and Gohardasht prisons near Tehran in 1988. The circumstances surrounding the fate of the victims and the whereabouts of their bodies are, to this day, concealed by the Iranian authorities.
Whereas Kazemi’s death and the mass murders committed under the direction of Iran’s current president caused minor unrest inside Iran, the proverbial single spark that seems to have lit Iran’s recent prairie fire came after the death in police custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini.Article content
Amini was arrested outside a metro station in Tehran last Tuesday by the morality police. They accused her of breaking the law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf or hijab and their arms and legs with loose clothing.
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