Women across the world are out protesting in solidarity with the women-led uprising for freedom in Iran, following the death of Mahsa Jhina Amini at the hands of Iran’s so-called “morality police,” or Gashte Ershad. We share here several images and videos from the protest movement, many culled on social media, which has adopted the Kurdish call, “Women Life Freedom.” Click right on the slideshow arrow, and watch the five short videos that follow. #MahsaAmini.
Women LIfe Freedom #MahsaAmini
Art by Marco Meigratti
Things that are illegal for woman to do in Iran
Artwork by Sahar Goreshi
Illustration by Marjane Satrapi
Out with the mullahs protest art
Woman stops police in Iran, illustration in homage to Tiananmen Square
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Zehra Dogan protest at the Iranian embassy in Berlin
Daughter of Minoo Majidi, killed during the Mahsa Amini protests, cuts her hair at her mother's grave
Woman cuts hair and mullah, morality cop
Another #MahsaAmini protest
Anonymous protest illustration
Anonymous protest art
The revolution has already started
Video capture of an Iranian woman protesting
Anonymous protest art
Hananeh Kian, 23, shot dead at a protest in Noshahr, Iran
Bloody woman faces down cowardly cop in Iran
Nika Shakarami, 16, beaten to death at a protest
#MahsaAmini Statue of Liberty
Her right to choose
Slain teenager Nika Shakarami
Slain teenager Nika Shakarami
Slain teenager Nika Shakarami
Slain teenager Nika Shakarami
Woman cuts hair in defiance
De Adder caricature from the Washington Post
The lyrics to “Baraye” by Shervin Hajipour are taken from ordinary Iranians voicing their anger in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death:
For the sake of dancing in the street
For the fear in the moment of kissing
For my sister, your sister, our sisters
For changing the eroded brains
For the shame, For the poverty
For the yearning for a normal life
For the sake of the poor child that searches in the garbage, and their dreams
For this authoritarian economy
For this polluted air
For Vali’asr and the withered trees
For Piruz and his probable extinction
For the innocent forbidden dogs
For the non-stop crying
For the dream of reminiscing about this moment in history
For a laughing face
For the students, For the future
For this mandatory “paradise”
For the imprisoned intellectuals
For the Afghan children
For all of this, For the lack of repetition
For all this hollow slogans
For the ruins of these badly-built houses
For the feeling of peace and tranquility
For the sun after long nights
For the mental illness pills and insomnia
For men, fatherland, prosperity
For the sake of the girl that wished she was a boy
For women, life, freedom
For freedom
For freedom
For freedom
Supporting the brave women in Iran.