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Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Cactus Jack » Fri Oct 21, 2022 9:47 am

A 17-year-old schoolboy has died in Iran’s second largest city, Mashhad, after reportedly being shot at close range by state forces during anti-government protests.

Abolfazl Adinezadeh’s death certificate showed that he died of liver and kidney damage caused by birdshot, according to a BBC Persian report. A doctor was cited as estimating the distance from which the teenager was shot on 8 October as less than 1 metre.

Protests have spread across Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody on 16 September. On Thursday, lawyers for Amini’s family rejected the findings of an official medical report that said the death of the 22-year-old, who had been detained over the way she was dressed, was not a result of beatings she received in custody.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... es-in-iran

Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Grafenwalder » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:01 pm

Putins invasion in Ukraine has sort of kept this low down on the news but i've been watching and listening.

The protests are gathering momentum and though mostly young people, it's encouraging to see many Iranian men coming out in support of the women.

Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Cactus Jack » Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:06 pm

Parallels not only with the USA but with far right movements in Europe.

You may have seen the report by Hungary's government that carried misogyny to a new level

Over the past decade, it found that more women than men had enrolled in Hungary's universities - with the number this autumn at 54.5%. Male students were meanwhile dropping out at a higher rate, and it suggested that the feminisation of the teaching profession may have led to 82% of teachers being women.

The report found that "feminine traits" such as emotional and social maturity were favoured in Hungary's education system, which meant that sexual equality would be "considerably weakened".

The researchers warned that Hungary's economy could be put at risk if "masculine traits" were undervalued, which they listed as technical skills, risk-taking and entrepreneurship.

The report concluded that this could even impact everyday life with young people at a loss for what to do with "a frozen computer, a dripping tap, or furniture that has arrived flat-packed and there is no one to put it together".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62686894

I cannot for the life of me understand why being treated by a woman doctor, represented by a woman lawyer having bridges designed by women engineers or having accounts done by women accountants is supposed to threaten me or my identity but religiously motivated right wingers everywhere seem to have made women the new greatest threat to humanity. An odd position giving that not only are women 50% of humanity but we would literally die out without them.

Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Stooo » Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:13 pm

Cactus Jack wrote:It goes a lot deeper but there are some parallels.

After a period of relative liberalisation Iran took a lurch to right because they wanted to protect 'their culture' and the result was a wave of even more religious even more conservative representatives who cracked down on young women trying to assert their rights to make their own decisions.

As elsewhere young women wanting to stand up for their rights get supported by others who see a loss of rights for one as a loss of rights for all.


Parallels with Roe VS Wade, it has more to do with the control of women rather than biology.

Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Cactus Jack » Sun Sep 25, 2022 9:05 pm

It goes a lot deeper but there are some parallels.

After a period of relative liberalisation Iran took a lurch to right because they wanted to protect 'their culture' and the result was a wave of even more religious even more conservative representatives who cracked down on young women trying to assert their rights to make their own decisions.

As elsewhere young women wanting to stand up for their rights get supported by others who see a loss of rights for one as a loss of rights for all.

Re: Protests in Iran

Post by Stooo » Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:55 pm

TBF it's a bit deeper than that and goes back to the Shah.

The authorities have learned from the Arab Spring and have shut down the internet yet my feeds are full of Iranian citizens being cut down :shake head:

Protests in Iran

Post by Cactus Jack » Sun Sep 25, 2022 8:50 pm

Anger over the death of an Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police has morphed into widespread dissent against Iran's hard-line Islamist regime. Clashes between protesters and Iranian security forces grow more heated each day. Women cut their hair and remove their hijabs in public, defying the country's strict dress code.


This is what happens when you let religious conservatives in government criminalise a woman's right to make her own decisions

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/cl ... aini-hijab

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