They help others through hard times, risk their lives for human rights abuses and stand together in adversity: we want to focus on encouragement on the occasion of the holiday – like the demonstrators in Iran.
A young woman who wore her hijab too loosely was killed. Mahsa Amini (22) was the spark that ignited the powder keg of Iranian society. It’s been over a month now. Since then, thousands of people around the world have taken to the streets. Iranian police arrest activists – including children – and the death toll rises.
“If I leave the house, I have a fifty-fifty chance of coming back alive,” said Mahsa Abdolzadeh, describing the story of a friend who lives in Tehran. Abdolzadeh was born in Iran, now lives in Austria and is a district councilor for the Greens in Vienna-Döbling. She still keeps in touch with friends and family back home.
Source: Krone
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