Testimony
Iran: 'They are not ashamed to have murdered someone in the name of such unjustifiable laws'
Dispersion in Tehran of a protest on September 19 against the death of Mahsa Amini.
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The wave of demonstrations continues in Iran, after the violent death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, who died shortly after her arrest in Tehran by the morality police.
At least six people have lost their lives in the protests that have erupted in several regions of Iran, according to authorities who do not specify the circumstances of these deaths.
RFI collected the testimony of an Iranian woman who observes closely what is happening in her city of Tehran and who shows her solidarity with the demonstrators.
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I observe a great solidarity between men and women.
Men who support women and who are in solidarity with this movement
”, notes this Iranian woman who answers us anonymously for security reasons.
She did not participate in the rallies in recent days in Tehran, but she detects “
a critical moment: it is not about people who are revolting, because the economy is in ruins.
These are the very foundations of the Islamic Republic.
»
It is indeed Iranian law that requires women to wear a headscarf in public spaces.
And it is in the name of this obligation that on September 13,
the morality police
arrested Mahsa Amini.
According to witnesses, it was the beatings during her arrest that cost the young woman her life.
“I saw more and more women disdaining the hijab”
For our witness, a resident of Tehran, the questioning of the Islamic headscarf is a fundamental movement: "
What I saw in the street were more and more women disdaining the hijab,
she told us .
.
Either they don't wear it at all, or they drop it over their shoulders and don't put it back on…I've seen a lot of women do this, especially younger ones…
”
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, ultra-conservative, is currently at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Speaking at the UN podium on Wednesday, he denounced a West that would have "
double standards
" in its attention to women's rights.
Iran's official media denounced "
the action of counter-revolutionary groups among the demonstrators
”
and – according to the governor of Tehran –
“foreign nationals”
were arrested among the protesters.
Nothing says that this wave of anger will waver the current power.
Our interlocutor contacted in Tehran knows this well, she who also rubs shoulders with her compatriots who support the Islamic Republic: “
It's hard to reason with them, they don't question themselves.
They seem to have no regrets.
They don't look ashamed at all for murdering someone in the name of such unjustifiable laws.
»
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