Whether in the news or on social media, what is currently penetrating the outside world from Iran depicts an all-encompassing crisis. For Iranians observing from the diaspora, this constitutes a scarcely tolerable new banishment into impotent speechlessness and helplessness. By Parastou Forouhar
The death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman who died after being taken into police custody, has sparked mass protests in Iran and in other cities and countries.
Iranian-German artist Parastou Forouhar, resident in Germany since the 1990s, is known for her idiosyncratic drawings, photographs, installations and animations.
On the 20th anniversary of a wave of murders of Iranian journalists and intellectuals, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for justice to be finally rendered by prosecuting the perpetrators and instigators of these crimes, many of whom hold senior public office today in Iran.