Woman, Life, Freedom - the push to topple the Islamic Republic in Iran

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Iran jails couple shown dancing at Freedom Tower in viral video

The Instagram influencers were jailed amid the regime’s crackdown in a bid to quell anti-government protests that have swept the country.
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"While dancing is not illegal according to Iran's penal code, women dancing in public — particularly with men — is. Haghighi appeared in the video without a headscarf, an item of clothing that has become a focal point of the protests.

The couple did not link their video to the unrest that erupted across the Islamic Republic after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in a hospital after she was detained by the morality police, who accused her of breaking the country’s strict dress code.

Haghighi and Ahmadi were sentenced to 10 years and six months each in prison, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, the communications arm of Human Rights Activists in Iran, which describes itself as a 'non-political and non-governmental organization comprised of advocates who defend human rights in Iran.'

The two were also banned from using social media and prohibited from leaving the country for two years, HRANA said, adding that they were reported to have been denied access to a lawyer during legal proceedings."
 
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Sara Khadem: Top Iran chess player exiled for refusing headscarf

Sara Khadem, now living in Spain, supports protesters back home but faces arrest if she returns to Iran.
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"Her husband, Ardeshir Ahmadi, is a film director and internet show presenter, who has also had direct experience of being on the wrong side of the Islamic Republic. A documentary film about hip hop resulted in him being beaten and imprisoned for three months. The decision which led to their exile was a joint one."

"She has been able to stay in Spain because of the golden visa rule, which allows anyone who buys a property valued at half a million euros (£442,000; $536,000) to gain residency."

Only 500K EUR? That's pretty cheap.
 
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Iran investigating poisoning of 650 schoolgirls with toxic gas

Many Iranians believe the poisonings with toxic gas are a deliberate attempt to force schools to close.
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"Others have speculated that the poisonings are the work of hardliners who want to 'copy' the Taliban in Afghanistan and the militant Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria by terrorising parents to stop sending their girls to school."
 
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Iran tries to reimpose strict dress codes for women after protests

The hijab became a symbol of official repression after Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian, died following her detention for allegedly breaking the country's laws governing dress.
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“Today, the issue of hijab is a legal matter, and all members of our society should adhere to the hijab, as they have been so far,"

"The headscarf is a 'religious necessity,' he said, according to a video posted on Twitter by the government's public affairs office."

Quick Mr. Musk - is the Iranian public affairs office government funded or publicly funded?
 
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Iran protests: Return of morality police met by defiance

The hijab police are back on the streets after nearly a year, but protesters are emboldened.
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"On one occasion, a court sentenced a woman who allegedly violated the hijab rules to washing corpses - a religious practice performed in a mortuary before burial - for a month.

A third, Leila Bolukat, received a one-year prison sentence for 'removing the hijab' and 'disturbing the public mind' after she appeared wearing a hat, instead of a headscarf, at a public event."
 
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Iran's women a year after Mahsa Amini's death: 'I wear what I like now'

Iran's protests may have subsided, but women have found new ways to defy the country's regime.
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"Donya says people in Tehran continue to deface government billboards and to write '#Mahsa" and "Woman, Life, Freedom' - the rallying cry of the protests - on walls, mostly on the subway. The government keeps wiping them out but the slogans keep coming back.

She, and the other women I spoke to, all stressed that this is not a struggle they are waging alone - with many men keen to support them. Some of them wear sleeveless clothes and shorts or wear make-up when they go on the streets, because these things are illegal for men to wear. Some men wear mandatory hijab on the streets to show how bizarre it looks when you force someone to wear something they do not like."

"'Society won't go back to the pre-Mahsa time,' she believes. 'In the streets, in the metro and in bazaars, men now admire women and praise their courage… Remarkably, even in some very religious cities like Qom, Mashhad and Isfahan, women no longer wear a headscarf.'"
 
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Iranian women 'ready to pay the price' for defying hijab rules

Three women describe how they flout headscarf laws ahead of the first polls since nationwide protests.
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"Many women in Iran now go out without a headscarf, although some have one around their necks in case they're stopped by the morality police.

But I've been told that around one in five are not wearing one at all - in a daily act of bravery, defiance and principle."
 
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