Protests have raging across Iran over the last week after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman in the custody of the Islamic Republic’s morality police due to her defiance against the strict dress code. The country’s desperate effort to silence Iranian feminists has taken the form of violent responses and crackdowns of both in-person demonstrations and online activism.
Author: Shaghayegh Norouzi
Shaghayegh Norouzi is a former Iranian actor, and one of more than 300 Iranian women working in the film industry that recently issued a statement protesting sexual violence, harassment, and extortion in Iranian cinema, as well as a prominent leader behind the Iranian #MeToo movement on social media.