On September 16, after the death of the twenty-two-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, beaten in the custody of the \u201cmorality police,\u201d Iran\u2019s Generation Z took to the streets in outrage and defied the brutality of the Islamic Republic. Amnesty International reported that more than twenty children have been killed since the beginning of the protest, some of them as young as eleven years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to The New York Times, Ms. Amini was detained on accusations of not following the hijab laws of Iran. She was severely beaten during the arrest, and three days after, she died from her head injury. Iranian officials have denied any involvement in Ms. Amini\u2018s death and have insisted that she collapsed and ultimately died from a heart condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nika Shakarmi and Sarina Esmailzadeh, both sixteen, were two other victims killed by the regime’s security forces. Shakarmi disappeared on September 20 after attending a protest. She was seen on multiple social media videos standing in a car, burning her hijab, and chanting with the crowd, \u201cDeath to the Dictator.\u201d She was found dead ten days later. A death certificate obtained by BBC Persia shows that Ms. Shakarmi died after \u201cmultiple injuries caused by blows with a hard object.\u201d Human-rights groups stated that Ms. Esmailzadeh, the other sixteen-year-old girl, died on September 23, after being beaten by police armed with batons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Iranian government again denied being involved in the teenagers\u2019 deaths and alleged that the two girls committed suicide by jumping off rooftops. However, Amnesty International and Iran Human Rights stated that the police killed the two girls in an attempt to crack down on protesters. Shakarmi was found in Tehran with a broken skull, broken teeth and dislocated cheekbone. Esmailzadeh was killed in the city of Karaj by the security forces, who fractured her head and left her to bleed to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Guardian reported that, to curb the uprising, the Iranian government sent security forces across the country, even into schools. A statement released by the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers\u2019 Trade Association said that, on October 13, sixteen-year-old Asra Panahi was beaten to death in Shahid high school for refusing to sing an anthem that praises Iran\u2019s supreme leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ravina Shamdasani, a UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman, stated, “Some sources suggest that as many as twenty three children have been killed and many others injured in at least seven provinces by live ammunition, metal pellets at close range, and fatal beatings.” A statement released by Amnesty International reports, \u201cIran\u2019s security forces have killed with absolute impunity at least twenty three children and injured many more in a bid to crush the spirit of resistance among the country\u2019s youth and retain their iron grip on power at any cost.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 15, while visiting California, President Biden made brief remarks regarding the protest in Iran saying, \u201cWe stand with the citizens and brave women of Iran.\u201d He added, \u201cWomen all over the world are being persecuted in various ways, but they should be able to wear in God\u2019s name what they want to wear,\u201d according to The Guardian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not the first and will not be the last time when the young generation is the leading force in the fight for human rights and a better tomorrow. However, despite the striking images from the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Communist party was still able to stay in power, and it would take more than twenty years after the twenty-year-old Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire with the hope to \u201cwake up the world\u201d for the Russian army to leave occupied Czechoslovakia. Let’s hope that this time the voices of Iranian women are heard. That is why today, we, the students of Fieldston, stand in solidarity with the young people of Iran in their fight for freedom and the right to choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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