Mahsa Amini died on September 16, 2022, three days after she was arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil properly. Since then, many women have stopped wearing the hijab as a gesture of civil disobedience. As a result, they have suffered brutal repression.
A group of 34 political prisoners from Iran’s Evin prison, including the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Narges Mohammadistarted this sunday a indefinite hunger strike coincided with the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Aminiyoung Kurdish-Iranian woman who died after being killed arrested in Tehran for wearing her veil incorrectly.
The prisoners also want to ‘commemorate’ the beginning of the war Woman, life, freedom movement which began with the protests over Amini’s death, Mohamadi himself explains in a statement.
“The political-ideological female prisoners of Evin have started a new hunger strike to join the protests in Iran against the government’s repressive policies,” he noted.
On Saturday afternoon, Evin’s political prisoners gathered and chanted slogans and sang songs against repression, according to the Bidarzani news portal, which published a recording with the prisoners’ voices.
In addition, Amini’s family has been ordered not to leave their home during the dayreports the radio station Radio Farda, while in the city of Saqqez numerous businesses have been closed and a large police contingent and a helicopter are monitoring the area.
“The Ministry of tion contacted Amyad Amini on Sunday morning and told him that if he or his wife left the house, they would be arrested” because “they have no right to leave the house,” he said.
Political and civil organizations have called for a general strike in kurdistan region and other Iranian cities for this Sunday, which coincided with the anniversary of Amini’s death.
The protests that followed Amini’s death lasted for months and were extinguished by brutal repression that left 500 dead, 22,000 arrested and 10 executed.
The protests against what happened did not change the government’s course and last April the authorities launched this the ‘Plan Luz’ campaign to force women to cover their hairresorting to confiscating vehicles or arresting them by the dreaded morality police, a measure described by the Nobel Peace Prize winner as a “war on women”.
Mohammadi, 52, is one of the leading voices defending human rights in Iran.convicted six times since 2021 up to a total of 13 years and three months in prison and 154 lashes, in addition to other sentences.
Source: EITB
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