I'm in awe of the bravery it takes to use civil disobedience in Iran
Seventy four lashes for not wearing a piece of cloth on one's head. That will permanently scar her entire back of her body. I hope terrible things happen to those that tortured her.
Unfortunately, they got paid to do their job and probably had sex with their wives afterwards.
Unfortunately, they got paid to do their job and probably ~~had sex with~~ raped their ~~wives~~ child “brides” afterwards.
FTFY
I can’t believe this happened in the country where it happens all the time either
You want to tell me this is not the western colonizers fault and the poor people of the east are not the victims in this? That's outrageous.
🙄👌👍
It's amazing watching the contortionist path you people take to blame every damn problem on the planet on "the west".
I thought I was being obvious, but that was highly sarcastic.
I think the OP was being facetious
It is not always the West, but in Iran's case, it most definitely is the West...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The CIA installed a religious zealot dictator... idk why you're being downvoted lol. Let's all just pretend the CIA hasn't been fucking up democratically elected governments for almost a century
Oh! So after forty years, it’s still the west’s fault? How many decades pass before a culture gets to own its own shitty behaviour?
mmh, so the shitty /s thing makes sense after all... fuck the /s btw
You're going to need to type in something that more closely resembles a complete sentence.
lol
This woman is a badass. She is spitting in the face of an authoritarian regime. What an inspiration for all of us.
But the privileged american women told me hijab is a choice tho.
I get so angry seeing women in western democracies defending this barbaric subjugation of women.
All religions suck, but Islam never having gone through any kind of reformation is a special kind of fucked up when it comes to women.
Worst of all is seeing my liberal friends defending Islam, like some kind of PC pissing contest completely abandoning our brothers and sisters living in these theocracies.
No reformation? You're in a sub thread about Western Muslim women not wearing hijab.
I, Jew, have dated and had sex with said Muslim women. That's pretty reformed big dog.
Because context never matters anywhere, right? \s
In the West, it is a choice, and that is good. That's what Iranian women also want: choice.
This echoes the argument against the prohibition of abortions. Pro-choice means that women can have the option to choose to have an abortion, not that they will be getting them for breakfast.
I mean, technically it is a choice. Between wearing it or getting 74 lashes on the back. :(
Definitely not something ass backwards savages do
What about cutting off the end of every baby boys dick because some cereal magnate wanted kids not to masturbate 100 years ago? Sounds like ass backward savagery, too.
Not mutually exclusive
Absolutely not. Humans are savage creatures.
Whatever happened to those Iran protests?
They dropped off the main news cycle. Still happening just not interesting enough to get coverage.
Are the mullahs still getting publicly disrespected and gunned down? That was epic, seeing those bloody effers getting a tiny taste of the brutality they’ve been doling out capriciously for the last 40 years. They’ve done wonders to make many Iranians go from marginally religious to adamantly anti-Islam, political or otherwise.
True dat. Anecdotal. I'm in Canada and one of my daughter (11) friends is Iranian. Have her parents in my phone and watch particularly her dad's WhatsApp status. Wish I new Farsi cause goddamn they are pissed at the government there big time.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mazyar Tataei, Heshmati's lawyer, told local newspaper Shargh that his client was detained at her home in April by so-called morality police, who confiscated her mobile phone and laptop and placed her in detention for 11 days.
In a harrowing story, she said she was eventually handcuffed and forced to wear a headscarf, shackled to a bed in a room that resembled a "gruesome" medieval torture chamber, and whipped on her shoulders, back, waist, thighs, calves and buttocks.
Heshmati said she tried not to show pain during the ordeal, whispering the words "In the name of women, in the name of life, the clothes of slavery are torn, our black night will dawn, and all the whips will be axed...", while lashes rained down upon her and the shackles bruised her wrists.
The term "inappropriate condition" likely refers to an image depicting her walking on the streets of Tehran without a headscarf, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and a long skirt.
Following the widespread reactions to the news, characterised as "violence and brutality by the authorities of the Islamic Republic", various figures expressed their condemnation, including artist and politician Zahra Rahnavard, who, along with her husband former Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi, has been under house arrest for years since 2010.
In response to the escalating reactions to her story, Roya Heshmati shared a new post on Instagram, expressing gratitude for the solidarity shown.
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As much as I hate the Chinese Government, at least they don’t force women to cover up.
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