Death by hijab
The story of Arezou, Mahsa & Armita
Arezou Badri was only 31 years old, when on the 22 July 2024 in the northern city of Noor in Iran, police attempted to pull her over. Exactly what happened after that is unclear, but what we do know is the mother of two was left paralysed after being shot in the back by the police of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
After initially attempting to suppress details of the shooting, the police, after unwanted attention from humanitarian organisations, were forced to admit that they were responsible for the shooting—however the officials placed the blame solely on Badri. Something her family vehemently denies.
A member of Arezou’s family told Farsi Independent News1: “The military and security authorities continue to lie with complete arrogance, claiming the shooting was not related to the hijab but occurred because she fled from a police checkpoint. This is false. After Arezou and her friend ignored a hijab warning, the officers chased them and opened fire on the car and its passengers.”
Police claimed that Badri allegedly failed to comply with their orders to stop her vehicle, but witnesses and video footage tell a different story. The car Arezou was in had previously been issued a ‘confiscation order’ due to her non-compliance with the mandatory hijab law. And considering the Islamic Regime Police were undergoing a clampdown on women defying the hijab laws, including using CCTV footage to identify female drivers failing to cover their heads, it is likely that she was targeted by the police.
Badri is the latest victim in a string of shocking violent incidences against women in custody under the Islamic Regime. In 2022 the regime came under scrutiny by human rights organisations for the death of Jina Mahsa Amini2, which sparked the nationwide “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising—against decades of inequality and widespread repression and abuse suffered by women. The 22 year old died in police custody after being arrested for allegedly violating the hijab laws. The police retaliation to the protests was swift, and resulted in the death of more than 500 Iranians.
Similarly in 2023, Armita Geravand an 17 year old Iranian girl suffered a ‘mysterious’ incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf , which resulting in her death. It is alleged that Geravand had a run-in with the infamous ‘morality police’ who then fell immediately into a coma, after which she died a few weeks later in a Tehran hospital.
The all-out assault on women and girls continues as the morality police prowl the streets enforcing modest dress and chaste behaviour, despite the promise from the new president Masoud Pezeshkian's that the morality police will no longer "bother" the women of Iran. In fact, there are indications that the plan is to make hijab violation a matter to be addressed by enacted law, rather by the mercies of the morality police.
Despite the Islamic Regimes stranglehold on the people of Iran, a confidential study conducted by the Iranian Ministry’s Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication3 was leaked to foreign-based Persian media outlets, and highlighted that approximately 73 percent of Iranians advocate for the separation of religion from state, indicating an unprecedented demand for a secular government—and an abject failure of the Islamic Regime to assert religious control over the Iranian people.
Contrary to the insistence of Islam’s supporters, who claim Islam is a religion of peace, there is no peace for the women of Iran who are subjugated, beaten, humiliated and killed for failing to obey the draconian Islamic laws. Laws made by men, designed to control, dehumanise and erase women.
Two years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began, the Government of Iran has again intensified its efforts to suppress the rights of the Iranian women and girls and crush the remaining initiatives of women’s activism. Ironically the men of Iran, whilst still under the heavy hand of the regime, are not subjected to the same control measures as the women. The international community must stand up against the monstrous gender apartheid forced up the women and girls of Iran, and the women suffering worldwide under strict Islamic rule.
https://medyanews.net/arezou-badri-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-by-iranian-police-for-not-wearing-hijab/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mahsa_Amini
https://www.ricac.ac.ir/en
Thanks for highlighting the mad evil of the Iranian mullahs.
Of course, you did not need to because of all the "BDS from Iran!" encampments set up on American universities.
In major cities, it is almost impossible to walk across town because of the never-ending "Stop killing girls for showing an inch of hair!" protests.
Students at Harvard cannot hear their professors indoctrinating them with more Marxist gibberish because of the nonstop "Free Iran!" chants on the Yahd....
Oh, wait - that's not happening.
You wrote: "The international community must stand up against the monstrous gender apartheid forced up the women and girls of Iran, and the women suffering worldwide under strict Islamic rule."
Ha! Don't hold your breath. Imagine if Israel treated women and girls like this.