Yesterday and today:
feminism appointment of solidarity
Chahla Chafiq, writer [2]
Women's struggle against the Iranian Islamic regime of Iran has been sustained since its first steps, by French feminists, in March 1979, a committee chaired by Simone de Beauvoir has sent a delegation to Iran to say loud and clear its support for large demonstrations by women against wearing the veil imposed in the workplace by Khomeini came to power for barely a month. Defying the highest religious authority, thousands of women are immediately took to the streets shouting: "We do not have a revolution to go back!". Troops with hezbollah (name born in Iran) that threatened by treating henchmen abroad, they replied: "Neither sail nor thrashing!", "Neither East nor West, freedom is universal! "
This struggle and other struggles of Iranian women against the establishment of Khomeini regime have been repressed, and the veil is now mandatory in all public spaces. Masses of Hezbollah fighters were mobilized to ensure the punishment against those who did not accept their orders. Hezbollah women participated actively in this repression. The Islamists promised them an emancipation "authentic" that would offer a "worthy place" in a "just and chaste," erected by Islamic law.
Three decades later, the Iranian experience teaches us the reality of this project: a society cruelly marked by injustice, corruption and despair. Last year, the protests of millions of women and men in the streets of the capital and major cities of Iran expressed a popular revolt that was crushed in blood, torture and prison, as all protests in recent decades . This revolt was a symbol: the beautiful face Neda, 24 years old student, killed in a peaceful protest by plainclothes officers.
Today, the figure of Sakineh, sentenced to stoning for adultery, which reflects the cruelty (and skewness) of patriarchal control imposed by Islam to women. You should know that Iranian men are entitled to multiple wives and have, for polygamy and temporary marriage, a certain degree of sexual freedom (of course forbidden to women). Similarly, a man sentenced to stoning for adultery is buried to the waist, which gives it a opportunity to disengage and escape death. - In this case, the law provides for the release of the convicted. The women are buried up to his neck : nothing will allow them to escape the barbarism of the stone throwers.
Sakineh The tragedy reflects the social drama, cultural and political life of this country who feel inferior women, while their presence strongly social and cultural challenges the dominant order. Thus, the feminist movement saw an exceptional growth, despite a constant and relentless repression. The campaign "One Million signatures for the abolition of discriminatory laws against women "has mobilized a large number of young women and men: their slogan" Change for Equality "reaffirms the universality of women's rights. Their voices join together those women who shouted their revolt in the streets of Tehran thirty years ago.
Iranian women's struggle for freedom and equality, connects generations of yesterday and today, the Iranian feminism and French feminism. And it is with enthusiasm that the Iranian activists do-s-hosted the Prix Simone de Beauvoir for women's freedom they have been awarded in 2009.
It should also be recalled that a campaign against stoning was launched in 2006 in Iran by feminists. The activists took to the court record evidence, and denounced the plight of convicted-e-s. Iranian feminists in exile were also mobilized for the cause.
What international support is growing to prevent the killing of Mohammadi Sakineh Ashtiani and all persons threatened in their lives today through the application of Sharia.
That this support continues to defend the struggle of Iranian women and men in favor of liberty, equality and democracy.
[1] Text read 26 August 2070 at the commemoration, on the Esplanade of Human Rights, the first public demonstration of the MLF, August 26, 1970, Arc de Triomphe.
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