Iransk minister uppmanar: Tolerera kvinnor utan sjal
Irans minister för turism och kulturarv, Ezzatollah Zarghami, uppmanar till mer tolerans mot kvinnor som inte bär huvudsjal, rapporterar AFP. Detta efter månader av protester i landet som resulterat i bland annat att fler iranska kvinnor vägrar att bära den obligatoriska huvudduken i det offentliga.
– Trångsynthet existerar dessvärre i landet. Men vi kan inte längre vara hårda mot folket, säger han.
Zarghami fick i oktober skarp kritik av landets ultrakonservativa efter att ha kritiserat Irans moralpolis.
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Protesterna i Iran
Wikipedia (en)
Civil unrest and protests against the government of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and are ongoing as of January 2023. Amini had been arrested by the Guidance Patrol for allegedly violating Iran's mandatory hijab law by wearing her hijab "improperly" while visiting Tehran from Saqqez. According to eyewitnesses, she had been severely beaten by Guidance Patrol officers, an assertion denied by Iranian authorities. As the protests spread from Amini's hometown of Saqqez to other cities in the province of Kurdistan and throughout the country, the government responded with widespread Internet blackouts, nationwide restrictions on social media usage, tear gas and gunfire.Although the protests have not been as deadly as those in 2019 (when more than 1,500 were killed), they have been "nationwide, spread across social classes, universities, the streets [and] schools", and called the "biggest challenge" to the government of Iran since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. At least 481 people, including 64 minors, had been killed as a result of the government's intervention in the protests, as of 9 January 2023. An estimated 19,262 have been arrested throughout at least 134 cities and towns, and at 132 universities.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the widespread unrest not only as "riots" but also as a “hybrid war" caused by foreign states and dissidents abroad. Women, including schoolchildren, have played a key role in the demonstrations. In addition to demands for increased rights for women, the protests have demanded the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, setting them apart from previous major protest movements in Iran, which have focused on election results or economic woes.
The government's response to the protests has been widely condemned.
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