Guillaume Dominguez 9:22 a.m., October 28, 2022
In Iran, mobilization has been raging for 42 years after the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested for "wearing inappropriate clothing" and later died in hospital.
If the revolt takes on such a scale, it is in particular because of social networks.
People are sharing real-time footage of the violent crackdown across the country.
Iran is entering its 42nd day of protest.
The people are on the streets to defend their freedoms, after the death of Mahsa Amini for "inappropriate dress" in Tehran.
Arrested by the morality police, she died three days later in hospital.
But if the revolt takes on such a scale, it is because social networks are effective relays.
A look back at a very real revolt fueled by the virtual.
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On the Twitter side, it all started on September 15 with a tweet from Amnesty International announcing the death of Mahsa Amini.
The first demonstration takes place in Saguenay, the young woman's hometown in Iran.
And more than 40 years after the 1979 revolution, this time, social networks are enough to inform the whole earth in real time.
The police are filmed when she fires into the crowd to disperse the demonstrators, the images are shared and commented on.
On September 20, the call for revolution spreads at breakneck speed across the country and a hashtag is created: #IranRevolution.
The movement spread to the universities and became a rebellion against the regime.
On Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, hundreds of videos show protesters.
They take off their veils in public and film themselves cutting their hair.
The spontaneous sling becomes an organized sling with a single objective, unimaginable before, to overthrow the regime.
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"We saw how social networks were able to channel the challenges of young people, give them advice, organize", details at the microphone of Europe 1 Mahnaz Shirali, sociologist and teacher at Sciences Po Paris.
"We are facing a new generation of social movements."
A generation now able to stand up to government propaganda thanks to the power of social networks.