Iranian opposition figures have a new hero: the arrested a week ago, Majid Tavakoli. The 22-year-old was shown zwangsverschleiert in the state media. The opponents make the double charging of the photos and support Tavakoli advantage with a highly unique campaign.
A young man with a beard looks seriously out of a black chador. An elderly man with rimless glasses with a flowered head scarf. A powerfully built student posing wrapped in a tablecloth. How it click by click it on and on, hundreds of images. As each day grows, the amount of Iranian men who can be photographed in a veil and post photos on social networking platforms like Facebook for viewing.
Iranian opposition figures have started the online campaign "Men with a headscarf," to support the leading student activist Majid Tavakoli. The 22-year-old was arrested during a student demonstration on Monday of last week. Then the state-run media published photos of Tavakoli - in a chador with a light blue veil underneath. The pro-government news agency Fars News According to the activists tried to the security forces to escape in women's clothing.
Recent student protests took on a series of demonstrations that were due to suspected fraud in the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has broken out in June. Tavakoli held here on the campus of Tehran's Amir Kabir University made a speech.
shows a clip on YouTube in blurred images, as he stands on a podium before a crowd of demonstrators. "Today is the day when this nation calls for freedom and fighting against tyranny," he calls visibly moved. "Stand against the dictatorship and screams loud as you can against the dictatorship."
The state security forces waiting for the organization of human rights activists in Iran, according to him already, as he left the university campus. "The agents beat and injured Majid during the arrest. The passers-by were shocked by the level of violence and brutality, "it says on the website of the group.
In the picture, which appeared after the arrest, Tavakoli acts under the veil collapsed into itself. His eyes are lowered in shame. Although the record looks authentic, some human rights activists have questioned their authenticity. Others suspect Tavakoli was forced to put on the veil.
The authorities apparently intended to humiliate the public and discredit critics of the regime. But the shot has backfired: the campaign to support it began that afternoon, spreading across social networking platforms, blogs and photo communities. And are now on the Internet hundreds of covert Iranian male faces to be seen. "We are all Majid, stands at the edge of many images. An Iranian wrote on Twitter: ". True men wear the veil without fear and shame"
addition, the regime has with the image of a man zwangsverschleierten involuntarily recalled that the women in the same coercive theocracy subject every day. The opponents make this double charging of the photos advantage - and set the same time promotes the release Tavakolis and against the concealment provision for women.
"Iran will not be released before the Iranian women are not free. Iranian men: Let us headscarf in solidarity with the women of Iran Majid AND "says the entry of a young Tehran on Facebook. The regime did mean with the assumption that women's clothes would be humiliating for a man, laid bare his misogynistic attitude, criticizing many bloggers.
A college professor writes on the Internet: "I am proud to wear the headscarf of my late mother, the same head scarf, which my wife is imposed, and the same scarf, from which the backward-looking banality that rules Iran thinks that it would reduce Majid Tavakoli. We are all Majid Tavakoli - Iranian men and we're late. If we react when the headscarf has been forced upon our sisters 30 years ago, we would perhaps not at this point. "
Thus the opposition in Iran once again demonstrated how the Internet with wit and creativity as an expression of their protest use and are in a position to arms against the regime Leaders to turn themselves. What was intended as a personal attempt removal has sparked a broad wave of solidarity and identification.
abandoned instead of being ridiculous, Tavakoli has become after protester killed Neda Agha-Soltann to a second, young face of the protest movement. The 22-year-old himself was well aware of the risk he was taking: He already has sat twice in the notorious Tehran's Evin prison and was thereby exposed to Iranian human rights campaigners, torture.
"I see the tears in the eyes of my mother and the anxious eyes of my father. With all the difficulties can only wish for freedom maintain my steadfastness, "he wrote in the last entry on his Facebook page. "And I will take one more look all risks, put myself on the side of my friends with whom I have the honor, on 7 December cry out against tyranny. For freedom. "
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