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| DATE | 2022-12-14 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Morning Breakfast conversation
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-iranian-teens-lead-protests-scores-are-killed-or-imprisoned-11670926962
Sarina Esmailzadeh, a 16-year-old Iranian, once documented sunny outings
at her shopping mall in Karaj, an industrial town near Tehran, on her
YouTube channel. She often used Western imagery in her videos, including
clips from popular American TV shows, singing to pop music or sporting a
T-shirt of her favorite soccer team, Borussia Dortmund in Germany.
“We’re not like the previous generation 20 years ago who didn’t know
what life was like outside Iran,” she said in a YouTube video posted
shortly after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in September touched
off protests nationwide. “We ask ourselves, why aren’t we having fun
like the young people in New York and Los Angeles?”
A few days later, on Sept. 23, Ms. Esmailzadeh
****became one of dozens of young people to have been killed by Iranian
police during protests, beaten to death by security forces,*****
---Let that sink in over your morning coffee---
according to Amnesty International. Iranian authorities said she had
died by suicide by jumping from a neighbor’s rooftop.
Minors, those under the age of 18, have accounted for 44 of the 300
protesters killed by Iranian authorities since the unrest began,
triggered by Ms. Amini’s death in police custody after she was arrested
for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
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