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The world is watching in awe of the brave women of Iran, who have taken to the streets to protest the death of a woman in police custody after she allegedly violated the country’s archaic hijab laws.
In several of the videos of the uprising on social media, Iranian women have ripped off their head scarves and burned them in street bonfires, including in deeply religious cities. Some women have even dared to dance bareheaded in front of riot police.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Vrinda Narain at McGill University and Fatemeh Sadeghi at UCL in the U.K. explain how the recent uprisings are just the latest link in a chain of protest movements spearheaded by Iranian women since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
They write: “Women have been in the lead in all these protests, posing a real challenge to the regime. They’re the leaders of transformative change, the vanguard of a potential revolution, challenging the legitimacy of the current government.”
Also today:
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Lee-Anne Goodman
Politics, Business + Economics Editor
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In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo obtained by The Associated Press, a police motorcycle burns during a protest over the death of a young woman who had been detained for violating the country’s conservative dress code in downtown Tehran, Iran.
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Vrinda Narain, McGill University; Fatemeh Sadeghi, UCL
Women have long demanded change in Iran. In the aftermath of the death of a woman for a hijab violation, women protesters may be leading their country to a freer and more just society.
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Alex Bird (second from the left) and his siblings from the Lheidli T'enneh First Nation were among the first students to attend this public school, near Prince George, B.C., in the early 1910s.
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Sean Carleton, University of Manitoba
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Lara Aknin, Simon Fraser University; Tiara A Cash, Simon Fraser University
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La Conversation Canada
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La Presse Canadienne/Graham Hughes
Calvin Veltman, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Anne Bailey, University of Oxford
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Marshall Keyster, University of the Western Cape
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