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The newspaper La Jornada
Tuesday, September 17, 2024, p. 27

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in her country, yesterday urged the international community to break out of silence and inaction in the face of the oppression of women in Iran, two years after the start of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, inspired by the case of Mahsa Amini, who on September 16, 2022 died in police custody. She was a 22-year-old young Iranian Kurdish woman arrested by the morality police on charges of disregarding the strict Islamic dress code. Her death triggered an unprecedented popular revolt in Iran, which was brutally repressed, but generated multiple social actions. Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian promised yesterday to use his political power to ensure that the police authorities do not bother to female citizens. Pictured here, a protest yesterday in Paris, France.