Iran’s women on freedom: ‘This cause won’t die’
The girls had already taken off their headscarves, in defiance of Iranian law. Then, in breaks between classes last week at their high school in Sanandaj, western Iran, they added their voices to nationwide protests, chanting demands for greater freedoms and an end to Iran’s theocratic rule.
As the students finished school and filed out – chanting again for the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and for “Women, Life, Freedom” – two police vans were waiting.
Policemen pushed six girls into the vehicles, and drove them away.
They were freed the same night, after their parents were forced to sign pledges that their daughters would not protest again, or risk “consequences” such
