Ahe was only 16 years old Mahak Hashemibut had the audacity to leave the house, wearing a baseball cap instead of a headscarf support the protests rocking Iran in recent weeks. A courageous choice, but one that led to her death. Or worse, to be clubbed to death by the security forces of Shiraz, a city in central-southern Iran. The 24 November she left home and never returned.
Mahak Hashemi the umpteenth victim of the protests in Iran
Hashemi thus becomes, as well as a daughter to cry, even thereyet another victim, woman and teenager, of the demonstrations which have now been going on for almost three months in the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini killed by a lock of hair protruding from the ijab.
When the father went to recognize the corpse, part of the girl’s face was unrecognizable because of the hits received e his back was broken by the beatings.
Mahak Hashemi was only 16 years old but she was mercilessly killed with truncheons all the same
Killed with batons without any mercy
And as if having to barely recognize their own daughter in the morgue wasn’t enough, the guards then dealt the final blow to Mahak’s family: they demanded a ransom for the return of the bodybanned the funeral and, of course, continued to deny having killed her.
In Iran people continue to die, worse to be killed
For the Iranian regime, over 300 are dead since the beginning of the protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. But this budget is much lower than the figures reported by the American group Human Rights Activists: according to their calculations, in fact, 451 demonstrators would be killed, of which as many as 50 had not yet reached the age of majority.
Hillary Clinton is also on the field
In the field against the repression of women in Iran, too former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and several Iranian artists and activists.
Together challenged on Monday the Honu in front of the United Nations headquarters during the inauguration ceremony of some art installations including a giant eye painted on the steps, entitled “Eyes on Iran” .
“It’s not just a fight for Iranian women, but it is a global fight for human rights, human dignity, human freedom, gender equality and justice» said the former head of US diplomacy. Also relaunching an international petition from a month ago and also supported by Vice President Kamala Harris for “United Nations member states to respond to the courage of Iranian citizens and remove Iran from the UN commission on women».
It is absurd, continues Clinton, that «a country that systematically abuses women’s rights and girls, you sit on a commission whose purpose is to protect those rights.’
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