The new generation of women in Iran is demonstrating like never before against the theocratic regime in the country. Videos on social media show girls as young as 11 making open criticism of the regime, despite the danger of being killed by the police. One clip shows a school class removing the picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from the wall, tearing it apart and setting fire to the parts. This picture from Twitter is supposed to show school students who have taken off their hijab and are pointing the finger at Iran’s supreme leader. – Religious leaders, disappear, shouts one of the girls. – If we don’t stand together, each and every one of us, we will be the next Mahsa Amini, shouts another. Protests have ravaged the country as a result of the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested by the morality police. The reason must have been that she showed too much of her hair, and thus broke the hijab order. As young as 12 years old As many as 26 children are said to have been killed during the demonstrations so far, reports HRANA according to AFP. The human rights organisation, which is based in the USA, claims that the youngest of the victims are 12 years old. The Iranian Children’s Rights Protection Society believes that at least 28 have been killed, among them many from the underprivileged province of Sistan-Baluchestan. This is the second largest province in the country. Two of the last named victims are teenage boys Sina Naderi and Armin Sayadi, according to the family of the former. According to the family, Sina Naderi (17) must have been killed in Iran on Wednesday. The relative that news has spoken to, says Sina, was arrested two weeks ago, and detained for a few days before the police released him. After the release, he is said to have taken part in the demonstrations again, and was shot in the back by special forces with his friend Armin when they were together on Wednesday evening, says the source. Both boys are said to have grown up on the outskirts of the big city of Kermanshah, and were buried on Thursday. In his most serious warning to the protesters since the death of Mahsa Amini, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the “sprout” that was the Islamic Republic “is now a mighty tree, which no one should dare to think they can pull up by the roots”. Nevertheless, there are no signs that the protesters will give up anytime soon. Amnesty: “Absolutely crazy violence” – More and more young people are coming in. First came the universities, and now the schools are coming, says the general secretary of Amnesty, Jon Peder Egenæs, to news. He says this has led to several children being killed. So far, Amnesty has documented 23, which Egenæs believes is probably lower than the real number. – These are children who have been shot in the head, shot in the heart, beaten all over with clubs. So the protests spread, but so does the completely insane violence that the Iranian authorities meet them with. “Stop killing us”, says the mask of a protester in Iran. Photo: Hassan Ammar / AP These young protesters mostly belong to Generation Z, i.e. those born between 1997 and 2012. The parents and grandparents of this generation also had protests in their time, but were unable to bring down the regime that time. Now, at a time when the vast majority of young people are present on social media such as TikTok and Instagram, and several of those killed have posted videos on social media, the protests have also spread like never before. Refugees to a digital world – Hello everyone. Today we come with a different type of video. That’s what 16-year-old Sarina Esmailzadeh says to her followers on YouTube, in a video she published on her channel this summer. This was recently republished by the newspaper IranWire. In a colorful t-shirt with characters from the cartoon series Adventure Time, and with English motivational posters behind her, she says that Iranian teenagers want to live online like teenagers in New York or Los Angeles. – What are the needs of a 16-year-old? Her soul is so vulnerable. She needs kindness, she needs to love and be loved. – Freedom. This is where it gets dark. Why? Because freedom is something that so many Iranian families have denied their daughters. The 16-year-old was beaten to death by the police during a protest in Iran, according to Amnesty International. Sarina says that young people in Iran have tried to escape from the reality they live in in the same way as young people elsewhere in the world. – We watch films, we listen to music, we play games and animate. We dive into this for hours and become absorbed in our own world. We then experience closure, in the moment. Claims that Sarina committed suicide Two weeks ago, Sarina, like many before and after her, disappeared during a demonstration against the regime. According to Amnesty International, she died after the security police hit her hard on the head. A motorcycle burns during demonstrations in Tehran. Photo: – / AFP The authorities in Iran claim that she killed herself by jumping from a building. A similar story was circulated when Nika Shakarami, also 16, appeared in the cold room at the police station after disappearing during a demonstration. In contrast to Nika’s family, who said they were pressured to lie about how the teenager died, Sarina’s relatives have not gone out in the media. “I am the mother of Mahsa, I am the mother of Sarina” On Thursday, Iranian authorities removed a photo montage from a large billboard in the center of Tehran, with the title “women in my country, Iran”. The poster, which was displayed in Valiasr Square, was replaced with a white wall, after at least three of the women who were there asked that they be removed, reports AFP. Among them were athletes, political profiles, researchers and the award-winning shoe player Fatemeh Motamed-Arya. The ad featured famous Iranian women wearing the hijab. Photo: STR / AFP – In a country where young people and little girls who fought for their freedom are killed, I don’t consider myself a woman, she says in a video on social media. – I am Mahsa’s mother, I am Sarina’s mother. I am the mother of all the children who have been killed in this country. I am the mother of all of Iran, not a woman in the murderers’ country. The film director Marzieh Boroumand and the mountain climber Parvaneh Kazemi have also openly criticized that their picture was used on the billboard. – Remove the picture of me from the wall under which you oppressed children and young people. I will never accept that any group inside or outside the country uses my cultural identity for their own benefit, writes Boroumand on his Instagram account.
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