name any others are being lout on social media. they are campaigning for his release, making sure to wars of their wrapping, who used to believe pierre voice r e code around the word stage here. now for a closer look at iran of next is a report on how the countries anti regime protest movement has persisted for more than 6 months. at the top of the hour sarah kelly will have more news for you on the cobra, him berlin. thank you so much for a company today with a, with interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project. our mission. to analyze the flight for market

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ah! since september 20, 22, hundreds of thousands of iranians have been risking their lives in a revolt against the countries islamic regime. young women in particular have been leading the calls will change under the slogan, women, life freedom. with the movement was sparked by the death of 22 year old, martha armine in police custody. she had been detained by rance morality, police for allegedly violating dress. the regime has hit back with brutal force. i wonder what's out, he's got a gun. it's estimated that over

500 people who have been killed since the beginning of the protests, many of them still children or teenagers. among them was 16 year old nigger shock, a rami i and youtube as sabrina as mother day, also age 16. ian. what does the next in year old girl need? you know, her emotional life is so sensitive, children and she needs affection. she needs to get affectionate. each needs to be liked and to like others. so she o. zarina died after security forces beat her in the head with battens at a protest. since last september, around 20000 people have been arrested. some were systematically rate like 20 year old. our meter above are prisoners, have been executed without

a fair trial. the 1st was 23 year old rather than shaker. re condemned for waging war against god. ah. then that was the 22 year old karate master mohammed mfc carroll, me. his father pleaded for his release. the message is clear. anyone who protest must expect. ah, but can iran government suppress this latest wave of demonstration? or is this the beginning of the end of the islamic regime? iran is one of the world's 10 west countries for press. freedom report is very much at risk as, as any one seen speaking to foreign media, which is why we decided not to travel to iran for our own and everyone else's safety. instead, we stayed in vienna and try to reach a young student in iran by phone. i think the connection is bad,

unfortunately. can you hear me now? internet access has been restricted in iran since the purchase began with cooling, the young woman marian out of concern for her security. we're not using her real name and her voice has been dumped me. i hear you know, i hear you. why do you think your generation started this protests in the internet? you can see that other country help leave how warm and leave thought you said, why can't leave like this. why they can do everything. because it's not, no my or life is not no money in the lot. many women including miriam, have demonstratively been breaking the hedge up law and showing their hair. this was unthinkable until a short time ago. that the situation,

the job in the university, in this, even in their family. the hedge up is the same voice for that. are you still scared if you go to the street without the job? i'm a scared. but that's like the 1st thing, you know, the 1st day was in this katie, because i waited for the more police. i was like this take. they take me now, but now it's in the change. it's kind of the 1st faxes, but it's not like are all you know, the rule is not changed. just change in the streets. especially anyone who refuses to comply with the hedge of law can be stopped on the street and taken in by the morality, police and risks hush punishments. i found another woman who we are calling. we're sheena. she's in her mid forties and was recently released from prison. she was

sentenced for protesting against the hedge up law. my might, i'm not against the job i'm against mandatory. he job. they all still controls for compliance with age up law. and the regime has eyes everywhere published after my friend and i were in the car. we stopped in front of an intersection it. there are many cameras on the streets which take pictures of the inside the cars. washing i with ours, we got a text message within a few minutes that we had not followed islamic rules. shimoda shawna, looking for an iranian born lawyer, she wrote her semi lives in vienna. from here, she documents the protests and posts updates on twitter every day. the photos and videos come from iran, social media are the only platforms iranians have to show the international community. what is happening inside their country left with the obstacles here,

i posted a concert which took place in tehran and the audience started chanting women life freedom. i, that's remarkable. when you consider how many people have already been in prison, august the fulfill i mentioned dijon and defend ms. simpson. many videos come from the hundreds of school girls who've been poisoned across the country. the regime is suspected of being involved. others shows social media trends like turban tossing young people, film each other, knocking turbans off the head of his lum, clerics as a form of protest. unfunny sneezed by the need. people at the beginning not much happened because they had no means of control in august. because then they passed a law making target, toasting a punishable offense on hand. and they hunted people down and arrested them on behalf that some were brutally tortured, looked at warden. there was one very bad case of a young man. i think he was just 16 mon and 16 younger he took his own life to have

that he was tortured so brutally in custody and put under so much pressure the half that he could not stand. it would be able to talk as it does with him. nissan titan kong lou. this couple has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for this dance in front of the freedom tower at great personal risk. young people have also scrawled anti regime slogans on buildings. i finished books, knick crossed out what we wrote, but we just wrote it again on thompson to protest the executions. people have suspended nooses from bridges with moolah figures as again, because my thought is that the development has been that the street protests ice, the van, which initially really a lot of people joined, which were held in different locations. at the same time. i have stopped to light the face can only because so many people were arrested in a short time that they told us in death sentences were given as a thought is to that scared young people. i'm trying to give you some but, and so they switch to other forms of protest and that i put this that says,

as on for still here and we're organizing. bob is in the organs, but i think they need a bit of a break from fighting out on the streets of june and apollo the my form from his english class and come. sure, a has shami says the role of the iranian diaspora has now become more important than would it take effect on those dameon unanswered? iran said we've been out on the streets for months back. it would be good if you could take over for a while and help sure a shimmy. makes her way to the united nations office in vienna where iranian dissidents have set up a protest. cam. oh, since massa, i mean is death in september they have taken turns and holding vigils day and night, whatever the weather the doctor has the ny yet hush him and his fellow campaigners are drawing attention to the crimes of the iranian regime. county on pupil lock. yeah. that's the really young one has gone really on. he was

10 years old or each of these gravestones commemorates a child or teenager who was killed during the protest. this, by the iranian regime, ah, jaw, and we meet mustard and ma hon. his brother mark would miss robbie was recently arrested in a run lie down, mac mode mach mood, was arrested in front of my mother on the 1st of february. and he's been gone without a trace since fact, them 1st wants the dish before him as you can you imagine why he was arrested moved by shanisha edwards, probably because he was out demonstrating and iran for a few months the going on for free for the people in around again, for women life, freedom like like 3 them. how true thus concept. the iranian regime only hesitates

to commit crimes against political prisoners when the world is watching. the activists in front of the united nations office in vienna plan to stay put for as long as the protests continue in iran. mm hm. oh, we have set up an interview with human rights activist, poor and as a me, in iran, she's on the road when we reach her. but the internet connection is reasonably stable. but we'll mums is why have you decided to give this interview and not hide your face? i'm, i don't think people are not ab each that in tuesday. yep. i think the main reason why some iranians hesitate to go out on the streets and fight. that is fear that he alban hop yard while they're scared of being heard in prison, had their path bad in here. it big you had an issue. i am showing my face on camera because i want to dissipate that feeling me she and abilene due to being so bad. if

we don't have the courage to go out and confront them directly to get more shower material. yeah, they will spread rumors as durable here in the population law and rule air boy and we will not die and it will show your i took the live where he just passed the jaw me air air ab about is why i am showing my face. you wouldn't need you being that you had your math yet. got i job you that went up. aren't you afraid? asked still bet they did. i give a gun. they retired tom to rogue. why? well lying. if i said i was not afraid. and madam, then i am with thought udall. why sham and i also have a family, a body em will. why did they, yan, yan, jaime, and i don't want to get into trouble or go to prison. law is the format of either. this is the heart of fighting and off on mad at if we don't show our resilience now already be, you know, if we don't try to bring them down to what about it, they will stay in power for decade that, that included bad on one poor and as a me has been imprisoned several times as a political prisoners, and she was 14 years old when we spoke to her criminal proceedings against her were

underway and she was out on bail. and amana just knew one ought to be. now that i, i am not well physically at butch, i to be my hilarious illness. yes, that was thought i had been arrested several times and bad might have been tortured digits. me that i have suffered many physical injuries, sat at the ad them. but what makes me suffer much more is the situation i encounter in our society every day. we can move it out when i see the girls and boys in our country trying to realize their dreams of empty handling. it makes me extremely saddle. i suffer from that much more sad. my gnawed lot of me that began in java doped out about here in iran, an 11 year old girl can be engaged to a 60 year old man if her father gives his permission to have the mattress men and marry 4 women in john. no matter how the woman feels about it like a band, and if a woman complains charge, he can cut off her livelihood traffic than women here have no right to decide to

get a wish that we are not even allowed to decide what we wear and took all the bushes, similar rods and my daddy. meanwhile, the rainy in government has been propagating a different version of what is happening in the country. they claim that the protest so organized by the usa and that the protest is a killing policeman. badge. yeah, yeah. oh no, no, no joe, on on you have some of these protesters are teenagers and young people and know she has who have taken to the streets, one of their emotions after seeing something on the internet. so when we get higher journia, and so, so the on it so, so to me john, man i with that they take to the streets to experience something. it beer this your cameras, law number, although are they are very few that you compared to the iranian nation. are you there and the loyal, faithful, your for your time b, jane oral. but this group can be disciplined and guided, or you others from get these images broadcast on iranian state. television.

critical reporting is not tolerated as natalie a, mary, a germany rainy and knows all too well. an iran correspondent for the german, a r d channel for several years. her reports were thorn and the side of the regime . after a warning that the regime was planning to take her as a political hostage, she left iran 3 years ago. we met natalie a mirror at a book presentation near munich and luncheon all fixed or if you grow up in munich in a democracy, but he never ask yourself the question of what democracy mean of suspect thought i . but when i came to iran, i was confronted with the fact that i no longer had freedom kyle and no longer had pieced kind of freedom out. why the research that the is in is not in essence 0. you can't report freely in the islamic republic of iran, venson state,

and that your heart from who none of the country is ranked 178 out of 100. 80 on the reporters without borders, loss on it for thought. i know they constantly try to thwart journalist one becomes and they put obstacles in their way. and vicky league, dancer, sean, and then there's the question of how you can report on such a country has that's how you can convey what is really happening there. dought passing it then because life as it's portrayed by the regime, it's just a bluff is dea. am cornel nominal. i'm bluff. it was, it's only on television. women are portrayed us having freedom, i know, and as having rights. and it was torn deed, but in reality, the women in iran hardly has any rights to defect what and of how she only counts as half a personal, ze built noise as, as had by mench, etc. it, these law mc regime has been in powerful 40 full years ever since the 1979

revolution ended the monarchy, unopposed of then rulers shaw mohammed, razor pac larvae. his successor was a ron's 1st supreme leader, ayatollah to holler hominy, who turned the iranian revolution. internet law mc one, with far reaching consequences. we spec to rainy and noble peace prize, laurie at sharina body. she was the 1st female judge in the history of iran, and was in iran when the show was overthrown. today she renee body lives in exile in london and only gets into views online. the rainy in secret service is known for its kidnapping and murder plants, even abroad. shamela kathy black, so that i had already received several debts rattle. has you madame kid, i prefer not to make it easy for my enemies to fulfil their intentions yet the other. that's why i am for assume you send an intimate took him on the side of the

woman. more than made you. i joined the anti shot protest like millions of my fellow citizens in iran. but i quickly realized what a mistake i had made that well, we all had made it to will have that. he has the and i had tony khomeini all the freedoms women have before the revolution were abolished. an islamic legal system was introduced, the worth of a woman's testimony in court was valued half that of a man's wearing the hitch up became mandatory and alcohol was bad. zona saw it rueful me. that when the shot was in power before we were doing quite well, given the circumstances who, although the higher we had personal freedom all, all, there were no problems in that respect. but mostly what we didn't have under the shop was political freedom, uncle ne, ne. so we thought homie, me would bring us political freedom, it goes, but unfortunately,

that didn't happen. is jenny, although yet not only did he failed to bring us political freedom on what passed upon it, he took away the personal freedom that we had it as we were russ s o. d. and then our economic situation also deteriorated. it, it must be done. you know, missed your blood pressure. after the revolution, she ran a body, lost her job as a judge. the explanation being that women were not suitable for that position. in the following years, she defended women's rights as a human rights lawyer. in 2003, she was awarded the nobel peace prize for this work and became the 1st muslim woman to win the prize. although she was celebrated in terran after the award, those in power increasingly restricted her freedom until she left iran in 2009. in connie he shall fall and they made it impossible for

me to continue my work in iran already. i could no longer practiced law. they confiscated my assets, my property a little novela, they started prosecuting me ever. so i had no choice but to leave iran in order to stay out of his fundamentals. and since then i've been able to work on much more actively, all over them. but he said, i saw the account for you since the islamic revolution, the us, as seen as the countries main enemy. iran presents itself as united with china and russia in their fight against the west. but in privates behind closed doors, things are a bit different. yeah, as a does, it's much been one example is this twitter account called rich kids of tehran as well, which tries to show how the regime does not follow its own principles of dissolution unit to lease. and they built up this religious dictatorship in the country in law with its rules and oppression would, is atlantic youth addicted to what then we seek their own children in the you who

obviously don't want to be subjected to these rules of leave. not because they are young and have grown up with digital media. born with me to get the i'm meeting of give axle seemed to listen. look, that's western bread and super fancy that month. and here you can see a party video into iran, especially there is a big party scene. although of course everything happens behind closed doors and in secret. that's really how to think often it's the children of islamic revolutionary guard core who are there because they are never subject to controls. don't get these. no one comes by and checks whether people are dancing, whether men and women are mixing, whether alcohol is being consumed, they are well off. they live off their parents' money, which is essentially the people's money from their tax revenues from the before go home from the revolutionary gar, disciplined, economic power in iran, vh of today. so the whole national economy works near trough. many companies, the or their c e o is a revolutionary guards, lutherans got these,

meaning they have a lot and economic power of utah coughed off weekly star. meanwhile, many citizens struggle to make ends meet corruption. political isolation and international sanctions are all taking their toll on the general population. the iranian real is losing value every day. if it is expensive, norm and lots of people have a problem with the ford and ting that you need for leaving it last bad. the last half years ago, but it war and wars and war and now it, toddler, labor, the regimes revolutionary god, doesn't just control the economy, but also the media. and the, traditionally, it is a powerful parallel army with 200000 members, and is notorious for its violence against female demonstrators. iranians at home and abroad are cooling on the european union to put the revolutionary god on the e. u. terrorist in february,

thousands when to brussels to voice. this demand also a rainy medina, a barza was also there and you know, somebody photo discharge amount. the you is that lazy dot there, double standards of islands. we have a regime in power in iran, which is so terrible and so inhumane, that it cannot be condoned has come and gone. isn't, doesn't bumped on yet until you building behind us. they sit down at a table and negotiate and do deals with these people handling on. don't know what to do. you stop doing business with these terrorist that's our main demand for the new has imposed sanctions on individual members of the revolutionary god, but not against the organization as a whole. 2 the you sides legal hurdles, but there is also the nuclear deal which was put on hold and might be revived.

natalie, a mary says that european foreign policy has been manipulated by lobbyists of the islamic republic. for years they have warned that if the islamic regime falls and the multi ethnic state of iran breaks up, it will become a security risk for europe vastly of an exact time. but what they have never said is what of the islamic republic no longer existed. it get to think then the world's largest fine answer of terror would cease to exist to them human that there were no more war in yemen. hick, the raj, could decide its own politics, can alter. there would be no, putin supporters, mom at the moment. they are best friends in atlantic powers in the front, all iran since the thousands of drones to russia in trance russian soldiers to use them in no crane war or clinic. when it comes to taking aaron's regime to task, there are many factors to consider is we have them on boarding vac. they've built up has the law as the bulwark the markets,

which they've had their missiles pointing at israel for years that touch on that. yeah. hm. does this home on that is also why no one dares to challenge iran on the issue of enriched uranium the a term unlike rank of not everyone here is demonstrating for the same goal to overthrow the islamic regime. formerly hostile exiled opposition parties have joined forces with his common purpose, including the son of the last shaw who has many supporters. but also critics iranians at home and abroad one to put aside their differences for the greater good . they are young and old, have different political convictions and come from different provinces with different ethnic minorities. mushroom nursing, when people shout from kurdistan to the he done, i give my life for iran at the demonstrations. it shows unity in battle. shakita.

if men stand protectively in front of women risking their lives or their eyesight them all yet if they are beating up or imprisoned back, it demonstrates men support for women by laughing. when students unite with workers, it is a sign that all layers of society know what they want. it cannot get worse than it is now your course, we will either be killed or go to prison. that's why we have to fight for our goal . if the regime is toppled many iranian exiles including she, renee body, one to return to their homeland, she wants to continue working there as a human rights lawyer. this year only brought up, but in canada i am very hopeful homa left, and i know that if the rulers vault on the people can decide for themselves school nuts it home up to rules. sure, sure. we are a very rich country, you know, says i mean apparel very has we have good universities, millersville yes,

pretty whole. we have of all the possibilities for further developmental yet it ye shuffled doughty ah, what do you wish for your future in iran? i fish happiness in it. i love the cold know make and i don't love someone is shoes for me. that people shouldn't make decisions for themselves and they're more classy brown. my name don't go bad than the mule dow. i don't know if i will live long enough for my wish to come true. i'm all manner but like many other sorrow, i wish for peace for the people of iran. but i tell mom we have lost so many years of the care. the joy we don't have as was the, the grief we had to endure the pain in our heart is your food adds,

that's what i want the next generations to be spared that. and that's why yes they, before i automatically treated us women like slaves. now we're saying we want our own life. we want freedom. not until today being a woman was like being the slave from now on. i think being a woman is synonymous with life and freedom um, ah, enjoying the view and come take a look at this tv highlights every week in your inbox, subscribe. now for the amount of class it is increasing every year, many im gonna working on landfills pretty only work very holiday destinations

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