Iranian Mothers Choose Exile for Sake of Their Daughters
‘I would lose this arm rather than abandon my daughter to my government’s nightmare’
Iran has crushed the protests which followed the death of Mahsa Amini in custody, but many mothers are determined to save their daughters from life under the repressive regime
By Cora Engelbrecht
The Islamic Republic – a theocracy that arose after Iran’s 1979 revolution – was never hospitable to women who rebelled against its strict religious codes for dress and behaviour. But their perils were amplified by a revolt that began in September, set off by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, while she was in the custody of the country’s morality police.
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