Women in conservative region of Iran join Mahsa Amini protests | Iran
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 3, 2022
Black-clad women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province have joined nationwide protests on Friday sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, in what a rights group called a rare move in the staunchly conservative region.
Videos online showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital, Zahedan, holding banners that declared “Woman, life, freedom” – one of the main slogans of the protest movement that erupted in mid-September.
“Whether with hijab or without it, onwards to revolution,” women dressed in body-covering chadors . . .
