Demonstration in Tehran on October 3, 2022 after the death of Mahsa Amini. MEI-REA
STORY – Four months after Mahsa Amini’s death, processions have dried up, but determined women are working to break the Islamic Republic’s taboos.
Correspondent in Istanbul
A survival kit ready to hand in his backpack: bandages, saline solution, a change of clothes. The other day Mina (pseudonym) caught it again in one fell swoop as soon as she received an SMS. A small rally was improvised near her home in Shiraz to denounce the hanging of two new protesters on Saturday 7 January. As soon as she slipped on her sneakers, she charged at the crowd and yelled, “The perv, it’s you! You are the immoral! I am the free woman!”, in the face of the police. The words flew by themselves like hissing bullets. “Every time I surprise myself. I’m shaking like a leaf, and yet I keep shouting slogans. He’s stronger than me!” , reveals the 29-year-old graphic designer via Skype. Four months already, which she goes to demonstrate whenever the opportunity arises. Four months of fear, anger and passion. Like an irrepressible wave in which Iranian women play an unprecedented role . “Instead of this…
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