New Book Celebrates Women's Uprising in Iran

LGBTQIA+ people, women and minority groups from Iran, languishing under the clerical fascist dictatorship of the Ayatollah's, will be in no doubt as the human rights situation in the benighted country.  Local Bristol based bookstore Heron Books in Clifton this week celebrates the new graphic novel of the women's uprising against the state.  "Woman, Life, Freedom" demonstrates that this is not an unexpected movement, but a major uprising in a long history of women who have wanted to affirm their rights. It will continue, the say, and explain further "On September 13th 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn’t properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later.   A wave of protests soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”—words that have been chanted around the world during solidarity rallies.   In order to tell the story of this major revolution happening in her homeland, Marjane Satrapi has gathered together an array of journalists, activists, academics, artists, and writers from around the world to create this powerful collection of full-color, graphic-novel-style essays and perspectives that bear witness."  The book is for sale now at this community bookstore at https://www.heronbooks.co.uk/product/woman-life-freedom/