As soon as you’re in the spotlight you’re standing out and confronting them; you are a big problem. Rage Against the Regime: Iran II, comment
You can’t force me to heaven if I don’t want to go. ibid.
Setting yourself on fire is actually easier than living in Iran as a woman. ibid.
8th March 1979 when women take to the streets because the Islamic Republic wants to to control their body. ibid.
Women in Iran are required to wear the hijab in public. Morality police are deployed to enforce the law. Anyone caught breaking it can be punished with a fine, prison or flogging. ibid.
The first ‘Girl of Revolution Street’, Vida Movahed, is charged with ‘promotion corruption and depravity’. She is fined an jailed. Over the following months, dozens of Iranian women repeat this act. Authorities make at least 39 arrests. The Supreme Leader describes the protesters’ cause as a ‘trivial issue’. ibid. caption
We gave our eyes for freedom. ibid.
Her name is Mahsa Amini, and she was just 22. She was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. ibid. BBC news
Eyewitnesses say she [Mahsa] was beaten up in the police van. ibid.
They started shooting people with shotguns. People were dying. ibid. comment
We’ve seen terrible things that will not be erased from our minds. ibid.