On this International Women’s Day, the hashtag “one hundred influential women” is trending in Persian. Nika Shakarami, the 16 year old girl who was kidnapped and murdered by Iranian authorities; Fatemeh Heydari, the mourning sister of Javad Heydari who cut her hair at her brother’s grave; the school girls in Karaj who kicked out their principal and Zara Mohammadi, the Kurdish activist and teacher who shared a video immediately after her release from prison in which she says, “I declare that I will never ask for forgiveness, I will continue my journey and I will stand my ground.” These women represent pieces of the woman, life, freedom movement and women’s continuous fight for freedom on this day.
The cartoon of the week is “No to forcing women to wear the hijab” by Jawad Morad. Source: CartoonMovement.
