"Contrary to claims by the theocracy, covering women’s hair was not meant to ‘protect women's dignity’ and ‘control men's sexual urge’”
“In fact, covering our hair was to preserve tyranny and to satisfy men's dictatorial lust. Now the world is witnessing that women’s ‘power of refusal’ has broken the ‘tyrannical power’ of theocracy.”
Narges Mohammadi,
Human Rights Activist,
Evin Prison,
Iran.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 is awarded to
Narges Mohammedi
"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"
Once upon a time, the #Shah of #iran was a pilot. On top of speaking 4+ languages and piloting state of the art F-16s. He was a flawed leader but he was objectively better than the #IRGCTerrorists that have kept Iran captive for decades and destabilized the Middle East. #WomanLifeFreedom#eatshitraisi#raisi
"Sotoudeh has been repeatedly imprisoned by the Iranian government for crimes against the state; she served one sentence from 2010 to 2013 and was sentenced again in 2018 to thirty-eight years and six months in prison and 148 lashes."
"Now aged 17, Ali and Kiana Rahmani will be accepting the Nobel peace prize this Sunday on behalf of their jailed mother, renowned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi. Together they will deliver her Nobel lecture that was smuggled out of the notorious Evin prison."
"Iranian authorities are subjecting teachers and pupils at Armita Geravand’s school to immense pressure as part of efforts to control the information surrounding the hospitalization of the 16-year-old girl.
Armita has been in a coma at Fajr Air Force Hospital outside Tehran since October 1, when she sustained a “head trauma” in a Tehran subway station."