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Sunday, 12 June 2005 |
 Thousands of Tehran residents join women’s anti-government demonstration, call for election boycott
Maryam Rajavi calls for urgent action by international bodies to secure release of detained demonstrators
Hundreds of brave women held an anti-government protest outside Tehran
University today, protesting against the ruling mullahs’ repressive and
misogynous policies and calling for a boycott of the upcoming
presidential election.
As thousands of passers-by and local inhabitants joined the protest,
thousands began chanting “freedom, freedom is the cry of every
Iranian,” “taking part in the sham election is a betrayal of Iran” and
“freedom, equality, down with dictatorship.”
Many of the slogans chanted by the protesters targeted the theocratic
regime’s policy of promoting gender discrimination. Protesters chanted,
“Unequal law, inhuman justice must end now”, “human rights means
liberation of Iran”, and “Misogyny is the root of tyranny”.
Hundreds of repressive agents from the State Security Forces, the
paramilitary Bassij and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security
(MOIS) quickly sealed off the streets near the site of the protest and
beat up some of the protesters to prevent thousands more joining their
ranks.
Protestors tore down campaign posters of all election candidates and
urged passers-by to boycott what they called “the election masquerade”.
Security agents arrested a large number of demonstrators, particularly
women and girls, and took them away in vans and patrol vehicles of the
State Security Forces and the MOIS.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, hailed
the courageous women and girls in Tehran and said, “Misogyny is the
most central feature of the religious tyranny in Iran. It is the
lifeline of this medieval regime.”
She urged all international human rights and women’s rights movements
to condemn the clerical regime’s misogynous policies and take urgent
action to secure the release of protesters who were detained in
Tehran’s demonstration today.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 12, 2005 |
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