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@DrKayvanMirhadi told me he's receiving around 500 Instagram messages daily from wounded protesters in #Iran, begging him for medical advice - because the authorities have been arresting protesters seeking treatment at hospitals.
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He says he receives photos like this ... "So, a person who is bleeding out of their leg from like, a gunshot wound, is just waiting for my response on the phone. ... It's just a horrible situation." 
@DrKayvanMirhadi tries to connect them with trusted doctors on the ground in Iran, but failing that, he attempts to guide them through home remedies. His message for #Iranian authorities: "At least let the doctors treat them. Don't take the ambulances to detention centers."
This poem is from a public account believed to have belonged to #sarinaesmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian girl who @amnesty says was beaten to death in the #IranProtests...
... It appears to have been written by her and posted 3 days before she died. Someone I know agreed to translate it to English on condition of anonymity so I could post it here:
Another morning dawned.
I am not in the mood for anything yet.
Once more, endless everyday deceptions have resumed.
How long will they continue?
Will they never end?
I am not in the mood for anything yet.
Once more, endless everyday deceptions have resumed.
How long will they continue?
Will they never end?
Instead of celebrating #NikaShakarami's 17th birthday, her mother mourned her death. She later dared to deny the regime's claim that Nika had died falling from a tall building. Here's our @cbssaturday report on some of the female victims of the #IranProtests...
... the authorities' use of force, and how some people are responding, as the #IranProtests2022 enter their 4th week.
#Iran #mahsaminiمهساامینی #MahsaAmini #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh #HadisNafaji
#Iran #mahsaminiمهساامینی #MahsaAmini #SarinaEsmaeilzadeh #HadisNafaji
"A lot of reports of use of tear gas, use of batons ... security forces’ use of shotguns, assault weapons..."
-- @sepehrifar @hrw
@CBSNews #BrianRobbins @EleanorTuohy @redmanjustine #markludlow #IanRobbie
-- @sepehrifar @hrw
@CBSNews #BrianRobbins @EleanorTuohy @redmanjustine #markludlow #IanRobbie
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There is a link in the essay to the Arabic translation, by @itmeansagift feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
There is a link in the essay to the Arabic translation, by @itmeansagift feministgiant.com/p/abortion-is-…
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“To the girls of the Middle East and North Africa: Be immodest, rebel, disobey, and know you deserve to be free,” reads the dedication of my 2015 book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g…
And now as I watch schoolgirls in Iran erupt, I feel as if I’ve woken up and there they are!
Girls fully realized, not dreamed up, not a fantasy, but erupted into their full glory.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevolution
Girls fully realized, not dreamed up, not a fantasy, but erupted into their full glory.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-g… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests #IranRevolution
To see girls hold in one hand the enforced hijab they now refuse to wear (be immodest, rebel, disobey) and with the other they give the middle finger to the patriarchy that enforced that hijab on them, knowing they deserve to be free!
