The protests in Iran are leaderless. They broke out spontaneously across the country after images appeared on social media of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini, unconsous in the hospital bed where she would be declared dead on Sept. 16, three days after being arrested on a Tehran street by a “morality patrol.” The officers
30.09.2022 - Writing in The Conversation, Dr Fatemeh Sadeghi Givi (UCL Institute for Global Prosperity) with Dr Vrinda Narain of McGill University explores how recent public unrest in Iran has deep roots amongst women resisting injustice in Iran.
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Mahsa Amini’s death while in the custody of Iran’s “morality police” is spilling forth the language and tactics of a feminist revolution with reverberations in movements like #MeToo and the fight for abortion rights.