After the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, Iranian security forces used massive violence against the freedom protests. More and more young women have to die because they stand up for their freedom.
The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody has sparked the largest freedom protests in Iran in years. The moral police arrested Amini in mid-September because of her alleged “un-Islamic outfit”: Her hair was visible because she was not wearing her hijab properly. What happened to Amini in police custody is unclear. She went into a coma and died in a hospital on September 16. The moral police are accused of beating her to death.
After her death, protests began, to which the security forces in Iran responded violently. The organization Iran Human Rights Watch reports that 130 people have already died in the demonstrations against the regime. Including many Iranian women.
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One of them is 20-year-old Hadis Najafi: In her video, which went viral on social media, you can see Najafi tying her uncovered hair into a ponytail and bravely standing in the middle of a protest. Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad comments on the video: “This Iranian woman is preparing to face the security forces. The Iranian regime has guns and bullets, but they are afraid of our hair.”
According to reports, Najafi was shot dead after her action: The security forces are said to have taken action against her with multiple shots in the abdomen, neck, heart and hand, reports the Indian medium “NDTV”.
The Iranian journalist Alinejad wrote on Twitter about the death of Hadis Najafi that she had to “another symbol like
The 16-year-old Sarina Esmaeilzadeh was apparently also killed by the Iranian regime’s henchmen. The Iranian journalist Alinejad reported on Twitter that the 16-year-old had publicly opposed the hijab requirement and was eventually killed. On September 23, according to Alinejad, Iranian security forces allegedly killed the youths with batons. Shortly before her death, the 16-year-old published a video calling for a protest.
The activist Nika Shakarami was also a victim of the brutal violence of the Iranian authorities. After a protest in Tehran, the 17-year-old was missing for ten days on September 20, according to the BBC.
In her last message to a friend, she said she was being chased by security officers, her aunt told the BBC. Now the young activist has been found dead. Allegations against the police are piling up on social media: Shakarami was tortured and murdered. Alinejad wrote on Twitter that Shakarami’s nose was completely smashed and her skull was fractured by multiple blows.
Background to the brutal violence: Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, women in Iran have been required by law to wear the hijab. Previously, the rule was unpopular because Iranian women tended to wear headscarves loosely around their ears or let them fall down to their necks, the BBC said. After the regulation was introduced in 1981, it repeatedly triggered mass demonstrations in the following years. The so-called moral police are responsible for surveillance.
