Iran was expelled this Wednesday from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the organization’s main body on gender, in response to the repression of protests unleashed as a result of the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who had been arrested for wearing the headscarf improperly.
At the proposal of the United States, the members of the United Nations Economic and Social Committee approved the measure with 29 votes in favor, 8 against, and 16 abstentions.
Iran, which this year had entered the Women’s Commission with a four-year mandate, will thus be excluded from this forum made up of 45 countries.
Iran lived in 2022 the biggest protests in decades against the Islamic Republic, some mobilizations unleashed by the death of Mahsa Amini after being arrested for wearing the Islamic veil incorrectly and that have further isolated the country, which has deepened its ties with Russia.
Young people and women have been protesting for months in the streets of the Persian country calling for the end of the Islamic Republic founded by Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini in 1979, despite the fact that more than 400 people have died in the strong state repression.
Arrested for her clothing
It all started with the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish youth, after being arrested by the so-called Morality Police for wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly, Mandatory garment in the country and one of the symbols of the Islamic Republic.
During Amini’s funeral in her hometown of Saqez, in Iranian Kurdistan, numerous women waved the first veils and shouted the first “woman, life, freedom”, acts and slogans that have become symbols of the protests and continue. three months later.
It was the starting signal for protests that have mutated over time, first with large demonstrations, then with mobilizations in universities, later with schools in which girls removed their veils and now with small and scattered demonstrations. to avoid security forces.
Added to all this are acts of disobedience in the streets: women who walk down public roads without a veil; drivers who sound their horns non-stop, or shouts from the windows against the regime at night.
The response of the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and the President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi, has been police and judicial repression, as well as strong internet censorship to try to control the protests.
In the In three months of protests, more than 400 people have died and at least 2,000 have been accused of various crimes for their participation in the mobilizations. of which 11 have been sentenced to death.
executions
The judicial authorities carried out the first execution of a protester on December 8, with the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, sentenced to death for stabbing an Islamic militant and blocking a street.
At the same time, at least 15,000 people have been detained, including public figures such as soccer players and actresses for their support of the protests, as well as some 70 journalists and photographers.
The leaders of the Islamic Republic have accused the United States, Israel, Germany and France, among others, of fomenting the protests, which, according to Tehran, would have the objective of provoking a civil war to “disintegrate” the Persian country.
It took almost three months for the authorities to make the first gesture towards the demonstrators, as was the announcement of the dissolution of the Morality Police, body formed in 2005 to enforce strict dress codes, especially among women.
But the authorities made it clear that this does not mean the end of the laws that force women to cover themselves with the veil and affirmed that they study more “modern” methods to impose its use. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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