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can representatives then cancel the guy. shift special digital worry us women using social media to help change the world. today must see early in his act challenges the job rules in iran. there is a dainty war in iraq about my lifestyle. they have guns and bullets we have facebook to church instagram and our social media they cannot keep people silent that's something that i never use. it's a punishable crime to be unveiled in public according to the laws sharia laws in iran you get lashes you get jailed and fined but more
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my campaign was born on a simple picture. there was a picture of me rolling in a beauty food street in london it was a spring may the trees were full of blossoms and i wrote a caption on my picture that every time when i wrong in a free country and i feel the wind through my hair it just reminds me of the time when my hair was like a hostage in the hands of iranian government. i also women whether they want to share their pictures with me so the moment of freedom with me i was bombarded by pictures from women inside iran being unveiled.
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so i created my stealthy freedom page on facebook bush now has more than a 1000000 followers on instagram more than a 1000000 followers and it's all about freedom it's all about dignity it's all about choice. i draw. which is close to see. our kitchen in the village are designed for women it's shorter because women are
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shorter than men so. i remember i used to say to my brother i know this is short for you but there is a church said 1000 and wash the dishes so that shows that i started my feminist movements my feminist revolution from my kitchen. that is important for women we have to start. being a rebel. in our house. in our village we didn't have toilets in our house we had outhouse. and in the darkness we had to go out. my mother used to say that the darkness is a monster a shake us black demon that feeds on your fear. if you're scared of it then the shadow grows bigger and it will envelop you and swallow you. open your eyes white
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as white as possible she me when i was a young girl stare into the darkness and the shadows will disappear never be afraid of the darkness but stay down. my mother never had the chance to go to school university never she's not even able to read and write but to me she's the true feminist. my father has stopped talking to me he doesn't support me he thinks that i'm against islam i mean against my own country and big chain my country but i think these are all happening just because you know the governor really brainwashed. people like my father otherwise my father loves me. when i was a student i got kicked out from high school just because of my opinion and then i
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became a journalist parliamentary journalist i got kicked out from the m.p. is just because i exposed a crush and i became a columnist then again because i criticized the president of iran it was just a week before the controversial election 2009 my car got the wind the lies in iraq and out 2 of my journalistic car was on there my vehicle be on so that was a message for me that you know it's going to happen to you as was so i decided just leave the country. now i am here and i'm not going to keep silent.
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i launched myself free of them but after 3 years it was everywhere so like the president of iran knew about it talked about it all the media around the war the media inside iran the rein in the state t.v. clerics and i thought oh my god now this is the time we have to shift the online movement to something offline these people need to identify each other so in 2017 i decided to actually you know pick and they pick a color and help these people to identify each other in public. these run on white ones they say they are the only soldiers only warrior i called
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it one person the inspiration because they never have the permission to take this. they will be shot they will be you know into prison they will be torture but they are brave they found a way to protest against oppression. on the whole. oh this is the other yes what has she done. that i'm going to come enjoy you know i'm can begin to need. some remark about us get it out. on the c other level of the now
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ok bye. it's not move leading the campaign it's why then leading the campaign and i am only they voice. primary for. this is the time men should get involved in women's movement so i created another campaign called the men in. the government all want to control the society because they know that this generation is not going to keep silent day found social media as an alternative media chooks frustum so's to be loud and to break the censorship that is what the social media itself is is a threat for islamic republic of iran so they try to block it because they see this
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is the main battleground and they don't want to lose control. system. i don't. know what. have. or yeah. that's what i want. so i don't have the ideas that yes other just to believe by me it's a good thing i'm so happy that you don't buy. that a lot are you sure they're ready to go like additional you live or you are shot realize this is a bullet that just got to come out of america one car got it the last you got a lot of them we're going to let you know what. this is a big show actually in this show i gave the platform to women inside iraq i mean mostly women it's about you know people inside iran who can use their camera and be their own voices be they or need to be on sunday video to link.
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i feel like i'm holding the whole iran you know the big kick me out from my country but they couldn't take iran out of me so now social media and this show is my window toward iran are. going to shock the shock that does the shock of course i am scared of receiving a lot of death threats specially when i see the government attack me through cyber are me calling me a prostitute calling me ugly the agent of cia the agent of m i 6 this kind of things actually from the beginning it was kind of hurting me but not now not anymore this is are you ready. maybe.
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the face of pantheon the great tennis certainly he's one for the ages. of. 10 or for the ages starts july 10th on t w sure. torah. says this is 1. 100 german streets on d w. hundreds of thousands of hong kong others are taking to the streets to protest their government. ergo you and i are. 17 year old zach ho is one of them they oppose a proposed extradition bill that could put hong kong's freedoms and the city's
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