Time crowns Iranian women “heroes of the year” 2022, a symbol of courage and freedom
The American magazine Time crown Iranian women heroes of the year 2022. “The young Iranian women are in the square, driving a educated movement, liberal, secular, raised on high expectations and hungry for normality,” writes Time, referring to protests erupted after the death of the young Kurdish Mahsa Amini. The women who took to the streets have “the freedom to say and wear anything”. And their ambitions span several fields: from university to travel abroad, from humble jobs to the rule of law, up to access to a Apple Store store, striving for a “significant role in politics, the freedom to say and wear anything”. So far the protests that erupted last September in Iran have seen the death of about 400 protesterskilled by the security forces.
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Meanwhile, despite the violent repression of the protests which has already cost at least 470 deaths and over 18,000 arrests, the demonstrations a whole country. According to the videos released by the portal close to the opposition “Iran International”, several demonstrations were organized in various neighborhoods and suburbs of the capital Tehran including Pars, Sattarkhan, Ekbatan and Majidie. Other protests took place in the city of Karaj, in Alborz province northeast of Tehran, and Sanandaj in Iranian Kurdistan province.
The Women of Iran are TIME’s 2022 Heroes of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/ZAKOOKS9zA pic.twitter.com/wO8fv9oe6B
—TIME (@TIME) December 7, 2022
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