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Justice for Iran, a martyr for Iranians
they march the street and they demand justice for those who committed such a crime. They are simply looking for freedom of speech, freedom of clothing and freedom of choosing their own life and their own destiny,” Mohammadzadeh said. The militant theocracy did not take well to the criticisms by its citizens, reportedly turning live ammunition on protestors, killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds more, according to non-government organizations monitoring the situation. At the Center for International Education, dozens of Iranian students and staff gathered to view pictures of six people killed in a recent protest, as well as a candle lit shrine for Amini herself. A mournful Iranian tune warbled through the speakers above the display, drifting through the air above Attendees at Mahsa Amini’s vigil replace fallen poster Sept. 27, 2022 at the SIU Center for International Education the weighty silence of the mourners. Dozens of posters in Carbondale, Ill. Daniel Bethers | dbethers@dailyegyptian.com and art pieces adorned the walls, Daniel Bethers what they’re doing to their Like a rock tossed down a commemorating Amini’s life dbethers@dailyegyptian.com own people,” said president precipitous mountain peak, and protesting enforced Hijabs. Despite the government Members of the Persian/ of the Persian/Iranian Student Mahsa Amini’s death soon built shutdown of the Internet in Iran, Iranian Students Association Association, Mohammed the simmering dissatisfaction videos of women cutting their and the staff of the Center for Mohammadzadeh. of the Iranian people to a hair in protest have propagated International Education came For not wearing the thunderous crescendo heard up throughout the Iranian together on Sept. 29 in solemn compulsory Hijab properly, and down the streets of Iran community and beyond. The remembrance of Mahsa Amini, Amini was taken away from in the footsteps of thousands very hair that the government a 22-year-old who was brutally her family to a detention center, of protestors. They cried out detained by Iran’s Morality where she is reported to have for the rest of the world to proclaims must be hidden under Police during a visit to Iran’s been badly beaten. After falling hear, drawing condemnation a Hijab, lest men are tempted by capital city, Tehran, where she unconscious, she was transported for the Iranian government it, is held overhead, free of the later died. to a hospital, where the Iranian from the United Nations and Hijab until Iranian women are “Right now in Iran they cut government claims she remained the international community too. The loss of the Internet in Iran off the Internet. They simply in a coma for three days before according to UN News. is even worse than it sounds. dying of a heart attack. “People all around Iran, don’t want the world to see
For many in Iran, women in particular, the Internet offered the only example of a world where women have a chance to build their lives as they please, unhindered by regressive governments with only one idea of what it means to be a woman. These women, with SIU students among their number, often come to western countries chasing the source of these ideas. Through the Internet and western education, Iranians are not just wary of the old regime: they know what they’re missing out on. “This is our next generation. How can they be strong women for our country? How can they be strong mothers for our country?” said Jenny, a woman at the vigil. “They cannot be. Not in the future of our country with these women. Maybe in the past the Hijab was good for women because there wasn’t any social media in the world and they didn’t know what was happening in other countries. Now they’re annoying, they’re asking us ‘why do we have to Hijab, but another country doesn’t.’” Jenny asked to remain anonymous. She and other people interviewed by the Daily Egyptian for this story are quoted using pseudonyms. Without the internet, only very rich and powerful women are able to appear in public without hijabs, without fear of the morality police. Please see JUSTICE | 2
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