Young people from around the world join Iranian youth in mobilising to protest for rights, especially those of women, in Iran, where demonstrations have filled the streets after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s morality police.
By Francesca Merlo
Young people around the world are pulling out the stops to demonstrate closeness and solidarity with Iranian women.
On the occasion of a mobilisation called for by Iranian activists from 5 to 7 December, the day on which Iran celebrates ‘student day’, the young people of the Economy of Francesco have mobilised to participate by engaging in a reading marathon.
Throughout the day, from Italy, Portugal, India, the Ivory Coast, Australia, Guatemala, the USA and Mexico, young people will take turns reading, in different languages, the famous collection of oriental tales One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights.
A wave of demonstrations
In a statement released on Tuesday by the Economy of Francesco, the young entrepreneur members are recalled as saying, “we have witnessed three months of street protests since the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish woman accused by Tehran’s moral police on 16 September of not wearing her headscarf properly.”
Since that day a wave of demonstrations has crossed the country to reach the entire international community.
“Some of us joined the Iranian women’s protest by imitating that unequivocal and courageous gesture: cutting a…
