On this edition of Your Call, we're discussing the ongoing wave of anti-government protests in Iran. It's been more than two weeks after 22-year-old Iranian- Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini tragically died while in custody of the so-called morality police.
The protests, which have spread to colleges and high schools, have shown no signs of easing in spite of the regime’s systemic and violent crackdown. Thousands have been arrested and more than 80 people have been killed.
At least 63 people were killed last week when Iranian security forces “bloodily suppressed” a protest in the city of Zahedan, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) NGO.
Guests:
Fatemeh Shams, assistant professor of Persian Literature at University of Pennsylvania, and author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic
Elham Hoominfar, assistant professor in the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern University
Shaghayegh Cyrous, Iranian-American multidisciplinary artist
Web Resources:
Bay Area rallies in solidarity with the people of Iran
The Committee to Protect Journalists: Names of journalists arrested in Iran’s anti-state protests
The New Yorker: How Iran’s Hijab Protest Movement Became So Powerful
The Guardian: Are the protests in Iran just doomed to flare and then be crushed?
The Guardian: ‘Something in me sparked’: the Iranian women using art to protest
