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‘Mullahs Must Get Lost,’ Anti-Hijab Protesters Chant In Iran
Swarajya Staff
Oct 16, 2022, 11:06 AM | Updated 11:06 AM IST
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As protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody over hijab continue in Iran, the chants by protesters have turned to “mullahs must get lost”.
The chants were recently raised by women without hijabs at a protest site at Tehran’s Shariati Technical and Vocational College, reported news agency AFP.
The slogan (translated) was -“Guns, tanks, fireworks; the mullahs must get lost.”
The AFP report says at least 108 people have been killed in the Amini protests, according to Oslo-based Iran Human Rights. Iran’s Supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been maintaining that the protests are being backed by the country’s “enemies” including the US and the Israel. The state has been cracking down on the protests.
Amini, 22, was hospitalised after being taken into custody by the Islamic country’s so-called ‘morality police’ over not adhering to the rules on hijab on 13 September. She died at the hospital on 16 September. Her family and activists attributed the death to the police’s rough treatment of over.
Iran’s government has maintained that Amini died of reasons other than police’s alleged mishandling, insisting that she was not mistreated.\
One of the initial slogans raised by the protesters last month was ‘Woman, Life, Freedom‘, which is a Kurdish freedom slogan. “The beginning of the end”, is another slogan raised by the crowds.
Read this earlier piece by Swarajya on how hijab imposition grew in Iran.
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