Citizen Journalism in Iran, We Go Ahead! (Update III: Video+Text, BBC Picks the Footage)
Posted by KamangirApr 26
As you might know, the Islamic Republic has started a summer veil program to face “immodesty”. The conduct of this event has caused distress and objection all over the Iranian blogestan. For example, female bloggers have started a game titled “does everyone have to wear Chador?” At the middle of this social unrest, one picture has become a legend. Titled “Let’s all go to heaven“, Maryam Majd published a set of photographs, among which was the begging-kid picture shown above, which I pointed at previously as well (link). This picture has been mentioned of, and even copied in, many other blogs. Doing a very hasty search I found these: The Spilled Fragrance, Lalipo, Long Live Iran, Cold, Masih. No surprise they fear blogging this much.
p.s. Please let me know if you know of any other source.
Update: Now there is a video of Police brutality.
Update II: What is being said here,
Girl (screaming): I am not coming. Let me go. You man! Don’t touch me! Let me go! I don’t want to go! I don’t want to go!
Police (to people): Do not gather! Go!
Update III: BBC picks the footage.
Apparently the Iranian parliament is quite fond of it though!
Justice minister Gholam Hossein Elham has apparently tried to minimise the incident by blaming the poice for being over zealous in enforcing the dress code. “The government issued no specific orders on how to carry out the campaign,” he said.
However, 203 legislators in Iran’s Majlis parliament in a letter addressed to Moghaddam, expressed their support for the way police acted. Source
According to the letter, Iranian women wear slutty scarves because of America and Israel, apparently :)
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