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The 2022 protests were not the first time eye injuries were reported inside of Iran. Other protesters, such as, Koroush Kiya (21 years old at the time) had attended the 2017-2018 Iranian Protests in Karaj where he was shot directly in the face, resulting in his right eye causing irreparable damage in August 2018 with a paintball gun while attending. [13]
Sheida Soleimani (born 1990) is an Iranian-American multimedia artist, activist, and professor. Her works have generated conversations in the field of 'constructed' tableau photography, as well as the intersections of art and protest, [1] with a focus on Iranian human-rights violations. [2]
Iranian authorities have previously used the bodies of dead protesters to silence their families. [12] [24] [25] Images of Shakarami's tombstone show this poem carved on it: "Gave birth to you with blood and pain, Gave you back to the motherland", [26] which reiterates that her death was not a suicide, but she died for her country.
Protests continued in Iran and elsewhere after a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was accused of not wearing her hijab properly died in police custody.
On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, [a] also known as Jina Amini, [b] [1] [2] [3] died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol , the religious morality police of Iran's government , had arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government ...
Sahar Khodayari (Persian: سحر خدایاری [sæhær xodɒjɒriː]; c. 1990 – 9 September 2019), [2] also known as the Blue Girl, [a] was an Iranian football fan who self-immolated in Tehran to protest the national laws banning females from attending sports events and entering stadiums since the Islamic Revolution.
Fatemeh Khishvand (Persian: فاطمه خویشوند, known by her Instagram username of Sahar Tabar, Persian: سحر تبر; born 16 June 2001), is an Iranian influencer who is known for her use of cosmetic surgery in images of herself posted to Instagram.
Iranian authorities have detained a young woman who was seen walking around the Islamic Azad University in Tehran in her underwear, in what activists say was a protest against enforcement of the ...