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☆ Protests in Iran over Mahsa Amini's death reflect the stiffling of all women
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Parnaz Foroutan | Parnaz Foroutan S Memoir | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +9 min
The year I spent in Iran, young and wild and hopeful, I lived in the shadow of fear. After the death last week of Mahsa Amini while in police custody for violating hijab laws, Brig. The Iranians risking their lives by taking to the streets are there to protest not only Amini’s death, but the threatened death all women face daily. The year I spent in Iran, young and wild and hopeful, I lived in the shadow of fear. A month before Amini’s death, Raisi issued an order to increase the restrictions on and enforcements of women’s hijab and chastity in Iran.
☆ 10 killed in Mexico bar shooting in state ravaged by violence
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterMEXICO CITY, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in central Mexico, killing 10 people, officials said, in the latest outbreak of violence to buffet the country. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said all ten victims in Wednesday's attack were male, and that no arrests had been made yet. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterA state government official said nine of the men were killed at the scene, while another died of his wounds after being taken to hospital. Calling the shooting a "cowardly attack", Guanajuato's governor Diego Sinhue Rodriguez on Twitter expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Valentine Hilaire and Lizbeth Diaz, Writing by Isabel Woodford Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Iranian police call woman's death in custody an 'unfortunate incident'
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
"This incident was unfortunate for us and we wish to never witness such incidents," Rahimi said in the statement reported by the Fars news agency. The police screened a video showing a woman identified as Amini walking into a room and taking a seat alongside others. Amini's death could ramp up tension between the establishment and a Kurdish minority numbering 8 to 10 million. An Iranian Twitter account with 60,000 followers focused on protests in Iran said shopkeepers had gone on strike in Kurdish cities on Monday. read moreThese included 2014, when rights activist Masih Alinejad started a Facebook campaign "My Stealthy Freedom", in which she shared pictures of unveiled Iranian women sent to her.
☆ Five killed in Iran during protests over death in custody - rights group
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
read moreTwo of the people were killed as security forces opened fire on protesters in the Kurdish city of Saqez, Amini's hometown, the Hengaw Human Rights Organization said on Twitter. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterIt said two more were killed in the town of Divandarreh "by direct fire" from security forces, and a fifth was killed in Dehgolan, also in the Kurdish region. In the nationwide condemnations of Amini's death, the Persian hashtag #MahsaAmini reached nearly 2 million Twitter mentions. The protests have been most intense in the Kurdish region, where the authorities have previously put down unrest by the Kurdish minority numbering 8 million to 10 million. While Hengaw reported deadly force by security forces in the Kurdish region, there were no immediate reports of protest fatalities in other parts of Iran.
☆ ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi killed in US-led Syria raid, Biden says
  + stars: | 2022-02-03 | by ( Barbara Starr Oren Liebermann Jeremy Herb Eyad Kourdi | Barbara Starr | Oren Liebermann | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +10 min
Washington CNN —ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed Wednesday during a US counterterrorism raid in northwest Syria, President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning. It was the biggest US raid in the country since the 2019 operation that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “Thanks to the bravery of our troops, this horrible terrorist leader is no more,” Biden said from the Roosevelt Room. US says suicide bomb killed ISIS leaderThe Pentagon will conduct a more thorough after-action review of the raid. But Wednesday’s operation was the largest in scale since a two-hour raid killed ISIS leader Baghdadi in northwest Syria in October 2019.
☆ Navid Afkari: Executed Iranian wrestling star’s voice is ‘everywhere now’
  + stars: | 2021-06-28 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +20 min
Editor’s Note: Wrestler Navid Afkari was executed by the Iranian government on September 12, 2020. On that fateful morning, he learned that another Iranian wrestler, Navid Afkari, had been executed, hanged for a crime that his family and friends say he didn’t commit. The spirit of wrestling is deeply engrained in Iranian culture, where it has transcended the arena of sport. The executionAccording to the Afkari family, his final days were brutal, but there wasn’t necessarily any reason to think that the end was near. Iranians in Canada on Mel Lastman Square demonstrate against the execution of wrestler Navid Afkari by the Iranian regime, in Toronto, Ontario in September 2020.
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