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Elnaaz Norouzi: What happened to Mahsa Amini in Iran could've happened to me | Hindi Movie News

Elnaaz Norouzi: What happened to Mahsa Amini in Iran could’ve happened to me | Hindi Movie News

Over the last week, there have been widespread protests in Iran and across the world after a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of the country’s morality police. She was detained for not wearing her hijab properly. News reports suggest that so far, over 40 people have died in the protests in Iran. The women of Iran have found supporters across the world, as politicians,…

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this absolutely horrifying

This is Bita Kiani. She is 7 years old and was shot in the eye by the Islamic Republic forces using pellet guns while playing on the balcony of her house in Malekshahr, Isfahan. 

Islamic Republic forces regularly shoot at balconies using pellet guns, top stop people from chanting from the rooftops. 

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It's a forest. Just say it.

This is the exact section of South River Forest property that's becoming the "cop city" training facility for the City of Atlanta.

I'm no expert on what constitutes a forest. But from Google Earth, this sure resembles one.

And yet the City of Atlanta put out some "facts" about the police training center being built here, and they're trying to convince us this is no big loss because it's not really a forest:

Weird. They know we have access to the internet, right?

Whatever this greenery is (and I still say it's a forest) it's going away for the training center. We're losing a huge stretch of trees -- which was supposed to all be a public green space, per the Atlanta City Design -- while massive highways stay the same & even get bigger. It's screwed up.

Remember this:

Nobody regrets the forests we saved. Just the ones we lost.

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Darin Givens is co-founder of ThreadATL, an urbanism advocacy group in Atlanta.

Hey guys is it weird for me as a trans guy to sometimes not all the time want to wear pretty frilly dresses and the thing is when I think about wearing one I feel like I’m wearing it I would be wearing it in a masculine way I bet I seem confusing I just want to ask if it’s ok.

Stand with muslim women for their fight against religious fundamentalism, not against them

this is not my post but one of many people who have lost a loved one to what’s going on in Iran.

Interview with Nele, Nika Shakarami’s girlfriend by Zeit Magazine

‘‘Nika loved the moon, and it became an important symbol in their relationship, says Nele. When they missed each other, they would say: “We don’t live in the same country, but beneath the same sky.” Sometimes, Nika would tell Nele over the phone that she was looking at the moon, saying: You should go outside too, Nele, so we can look at it together. They even called each other “my moonie.” Or Niki and Neli. Or Haku and Chihiro, like the main characters in the anime film “Spirited Away,” which both of them loved. The story involves a courageous boy helping a shy girl escape a world full of monsters. “That was us,” Nele says today‘‘

Nika Shakarami was a 16 year old brave Iranian girl who was kidnapped by the police during the ongoing protests in Iran, brutally tortured, raped and murdered in cold blood. Her burial was on her birthday. Say her name, Nika Shakarami

More than 20,000 Iranian Girls under 15 Got Married over Nine-Months

Statistics from Iran show that over 20,000 girls under the age of 15 were married off from the period of (about?) April/May-ish 2022 to January 2023. Aside from the obviously disturbing fact that this is in effect legalized rape of children, I have to wonder how many of these poor young girls will be subjected to a suffocating environment where they will suffer from all kinds of abuse.

In this post, I discussed the tragic story of Mona Heydari, who is an example of a child bride being married off to an abusive husband. Mona was married at 12 and became a mother at 14. She ran away from her abusive husband a few years later and ultimately was brought back to Iran... only to be beheaded at the age of 17 by her husband (presumably as punishment?). The kicker is that the perpetrators of these "honor killings" often do not receive the severe sentence they deserve (i.e., sentences that are typically handed down to murderers). In fact, in Mona's case, her parents, who had signed HER death sentence at age 12, apparently pardoned her husband and, thus, the already short sentence was further reduced to a mere 8 year prison term.

And you know, I cannot help but worry about how many of these 20,000+ new child brides will meet Mona's tragic fate several years down the line. (I obviously hope this isn't the case.) But then again, this is to be expected of a regime that sexualizes girls before they even reach puberty and clearly regards them as objects.

SOURCE

iranwire.com

More than 20,000 Iranian Girls under 15 Got Married over Nine-Months

More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 got married in Iran during the nine-month period ending in January, according to official dat ...