In an unprecedented recording, Iranian women sing and clap in time, defying their jailers and the regime that wants them to disappear from their terrible Evin prison.
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By Béatrice DelvauxPublished on 09/17/2024 at 00:30
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Fwoman, life, freedom. Woman, life, freedom. The women of Evin remain united and determined until the death penalty is abolished. We will hold on until the end. The death sentences are the revenge of our leaders against women, against Kurdistan, they touch every corner of Iran. Lives may be lost, heads may roll, freedom will never perish. Reformers, conservatives, it is over for you.” Take this minute and fourteen seconds to listen to this incredible recording of Iranian women’s voices, singing and clapping in time and defying from their terrible Evin prison their jailers and the regime that wants them gone. An incredible recording – broadcast by France Inter – to commemorate the death, on September 16, 2022, of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish student arrested by the morality police for not wearing the hijab correctly, and the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement born in the wake.
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