“Woman, Life, Freedom”: this slogan continues to carry the Iranian revolt. Two years ago, Kurdish student Mahsa Amini lost her life after being arrested by the morality police for wearing an improperly worn veil. In Paris, several groups and associations demonstrated in her memory this Sunday, September 15, 2024.
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“Iranian women are still standing.” Nina’s placard flies above the procession Parisian. Two years after the death of Mahsa Aminishe wants to continue the fight. The dictatorship Iranian continues to massacre women, continues to perpetrate its gender-based apartheid. To see people coming together today all over the world, it certainly warms the heart, because we feel less alone in our fight. But I wish it were like this every day ” she explains to the microphone ofAntoine Gallenne.
In front of the crowd, Darya, president of the association “Neda of Iran” lists the demands: ” No to religious tyranny, no to gender apartheid, no to the death penalty and for a secular and social democracy in Iran. »
“ The propaganda didn’t take »
According to this Franco-Iranian, society has changed in another dimension after the death of Mahsa Amini. What we see is that the propaganda has not taken. These women want freedom and secularism. In Iran, we know that every day, there are women who walk without veils in the streets. There is really an after today in Iran. We see it ” observes Darya.
Arrests and prison sentences, however, remain commonplace. The young woman recalls that 34 inmates of Evin prison have started a hunger strike to commemorate the two-year anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death.
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