In Iran, One Young Man’s Protest on International Women’s Day: Death to the Patriarchy

April 1st, 2009 § 2

On March 8th, which was Inter­na­tional Women’s Day, the young man in the two pic­tures below could be seen walk­ing through the streets of Tehran. His tee shirt reads – and excuse my per­haps awk­ward translit­er­a­tion of the Per­sian–Marg bar Mard­salari, which my wife trans­lates as “Death to Patri­archy.” That he is wear­ing a hajeb – or, in Per­sian, roosari – speaks for itself. As I under­stand it, he was arrested almost imme­di­ately after the pic­tures were taken. I have not been able to find out any­thing about what has hap­pened to him s

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