September 16th 2024 marks the second anniversary of the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini, who was arrested and beaten by Iran's morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. Her death was the starting...
From the 1910 Women's Movement to Jîna Mahsa Amini: Over a Century of Struggle for Women's Rights and liberations in Iran. This text is written under pseudonym.
Message from Narges Mohammadi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, on the Second Anniversary of Mahsa Jîna Amini's Death and the Start of the ‘Women, Life, Freedom’ Movement.
Sarvenaz Ahmadi is an Iranian translator in the field of women and a social worker in the field of children. She was arrested during the Woman Life Freedom movement. She was detained for a month and...
The author of this short story remains anonymous. She sent the text a few weeks after that the protests had started in September. Whether she is free or behind bars remains unknown to us. The short...
On September 13, Mahsa Zhina Amini was arrested by Iran's morality police for wearing her veil the wrong way. On September 16, she died under suspicious circumstances. This was the start of the...
Neda is a Kurdish woman and human rights activist who participates in and leads the protests in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in Iran. The regime's forces have occupied the center of the city and the...
Text: Neda from Kurdistan
November 04 2022
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