fighting against oppression, full freedom. the women in iran, a show of resilience. close on next d w. a scoring we say they were about giving up sports life every weekend on d w i oh, yeah. by oh, we should fight for lunch, the bundle. we're what we've been playing with mom. all we want is

our human dignity, not more our right to decide and to enjoy life. oh man, oh annette as high enough let him get if we don't try to bring them down as i need in a often they wouldn't power for does it have that didn't get a spot. 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,

many in police custody. she had been detained by ron's morality police for allegedly violating dressers. the regime has hit back with brutal force. i wonder what job 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 nico shock, a rami i went and youtube as sabrina, as mother day, also age 16. ian. what does the next in year old girl need you to know her emotions, life is so sensitive. she knows that she needs a section. she needs to get affection. she needs to be like and to like other

the rena died after security forces beat her and the head with battens other protest. since september, around 20000 people have been arrested. systematically rate like 20 year old or meta, a bus c. prisoners have been executed without a fair trial. the 3rd 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 the way. ah, but can iran governments 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 find media, which is why we decided not to travel to iran for our own. and everyone else is safety. instead, we stayed in vienna and try to reach a young student in iran by phone. i think that 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, marianne, 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 i can't leave like this. why they can do everything. because it's not, no, my life is not no money in the world. many women including marry him, have demonstratively been breaking him 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 for that. are you still scared if you go to the street without the job? i'm a scared, but much like the 1st thing, you know, the 1st day was in this katie because i wait for the police. i was like this. take. they take me now, but now it's in the change. it's kind of the sexes,

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 phone 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 job. they all still controls will compliance with age up low. and the regime has eyes everywhere. established african, 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 by with ours, we got a text message within a few minutes that we had not followed islamic rules, shall moderate children. look into that.

iranian born lawyer, she wrote her sammy 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. much with the obstacles here. i posted a concert which took place into iran and the audience started chanting women life freedom. i. and that's remarkable. when you consider how many people have already been in prison, obviously for villa mentioned is shown in giving new seats in many videos, come from the hundreds of school girls who have 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. and from his niece that and then the people at the beginning not much happened because they had no means of control. and i guess it because then they passed a law making target toasting a punishable offense on hand. and they hunted people down and arrested them on for half dead. some were brutally tortured at warden. there was then very bad case of a young man. i think he was just 16 mom 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 with it. though. sodium, nissan titan cong, 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 think about books there crossed out what we wrote last night, but we just wrote it again on thompson to protest the executions. people have

suspended nooses from bridges with moolah figures as did begin by sort of the, the, the development has been that the st. protests eyes, the van which initially really a lot of people joined on which were held in different locations. at the same time, i have stopped and i had to face can only because so many people were arrested a short time by it. they told us when death sentences were given as a thought is to that scared young people from the back of reason. but in, so they switched to other forms of protest. and that i put this that says as on, we're still here and we're organizing. bob is in august, but i think they need a bit of a break from fighting out on the streets of jan and paul's in my form from his english class in comp. sure, her sammy says the role of the iranian diaspora has now become more important than i would like to connect on those to me on the, on the entity. ron said, we've been out on the streets for months back. that would be good if you could take over for a while and help. sure. shami makes her way to the united nations office in vienna, where iranian dissidents have set up a protest. cam. oh,

since massa amin is death in september, they have taken turns and holding vigils, day and night, whatever the weather the doctor hassan now yet hush him and his fellow campaigners are drawing attention to the crimes of the iranian regime. han keion pupa laconia. that's the really young one, has gone really gone. he was 10 years old. each of these gravestones commemorates a child or teenager who was killed during the protest. this, by the iranian regime, i see, jaw in we meet must suit and ma hon. his brother in law miss robbie was recently arrested in iran, lidar mac mode, mac mood was arrested in front of my mother on the 1st of february. and he's been

gone without a trace since we're back them fair. don't see a dish bill for him as you can you imagine why he was arrested moved by shanisha. it was probably because he was out demonstrating, and iran for a few months. sick and old for freedom, for the people in iran began for women's life. freedom luck, glad to read them. hutcher does con side. 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's plan to stay put for as long as the protests continue in iran. mm hm. 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. performance is why have you

decided to give this interview and not hide your face? i'm, i don't think people are not ab beach that include the care. i think the main reason why some iranians hesitate to go out on the streets and fight. that is the fear that he alban hop yard while they're scared of being put in prison, had their path bad in here is big you damage or i am showing my face on camera because i want to dissipate that feeling machine abilene due to being so bad if we don't have the courage to go out and confront them directly, get more shower material. yeah, they will spread rumors as durable here in the population law and rule air boy, and we will not mine. it will show your i to book value while he just passed the draw me f f ab a bad is why i am showing my face. you wouldn't, maybe she began that you had your math yet. got i job you that went amount you afraid? asked so bad they did. i give a gun and a retired tom to rogue i would be lying. if i said i was not afraid at madame, then i'm with udall blush. i'm and i also have a family at that

u. m will. why did they? yeah, yeah. i mean, i don't want to get into trouble or go to prison. law is the format, but i, but this is the heart of fighting van off on mad at if we don't show our resilience now. id be, you know, if we don't try to bring them down or what about it, they will stay in power for decade and that included bad hardwood poor another me has been imprisoned several times as a political prisoners since she was 14 years old. when we spoke to her criminal proceedings against her were underway and she was out on bail. no ma'am, i know just him well not to deny that i am not well physically at which i'd be my have various illnesses that was that i've been arrested several times and bad. my fine torture. i did meet the that i have suffered many physical injury sat at the add them, but what makes me suffer much more is the situation i encounter in our society every day. we can move it when i see the girls and boys in our country trying to realize their dreams of empty hand luggage. it makes me extremely saddle. i suffer

from that much more than my gnawed lot of me that began in jump i booked 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 all in it like a band. and if a woman complains char, he can cut off her livelihood. traffic and 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 position over ross and my the id. meanwhile, the iranian government has been propagating a different version of what is happening in the country. they claim that the protests are organized by the usa and that the protest is or killing policeman. bad . yeah, good. you have. oh no, no, no joe, on on you have some of these protesters or teenagers and young people and know she has, who have taken to the streets, one of their emotions after seeing something on the internet or when you get higher

journia. yes, i was hockey and as i thought he was young man, i would gladly take to the streets to experience something dear this your cham yasandra roller. they are very few that you are compared to the iranian nation. are you there and the loyal, faithful, your, for your time? be machine oral. but this group can be disciplined and guide to go, yet you should get all 3 of these images, the 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 a thorn in 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 mary at a book presentation near munich. and,

and mention all fixed. or if you grow up in munich and in a democracy hottie, you never ask yourself the question of what democracy means, 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 you aren't from who none of the country is ranked 178, that of 180 on their reporters without borders nominated for thought. i know they constantly try to thwart journalist month becomes and they put obstacles in their way. and vicki 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. thought paths yet then because life as it's portrayed by the regime, it's just a bluff is dea. am cornel gunam nor i'm bluff. it was,

it's only on television. women are portrayed as having freedom, i know as having rights. and it was a torn d them. but in reality, a woman in iran hardly has any rights to defect what and of how she only counts as half a personal event noise, as, as high by mench exceeded. these law mach regime has been in powerful 44 years ever since the 1979 revolution ended the monarchy unopposed. of then rulers shaw mohammed reza pac larvae. his successor was a ron's 1st supreme leader, ayatollah to holler hominy, who turned the iranian revolution. internet la mc one, with far reaching consequences. we spoke 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 gives interviews 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 death threat. how jimmy duncan, i prefer not to make it easy for my enemies to fulfil their intentions yet the kids of this. that's why and for assume you found an estimate of the size of the zooming . more than made you, i joined the anti sha 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 had the and i had tunnel khomeini all the freedoms women had before the revolution were abolished, and 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 the k 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 also 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 a whole me. so we thought homie, me would bring us political freedom, he goes, but unfortunately that didn't happen is danielle wu. 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, mischief, especially 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 into iran after the award. those in power increasingly restricted her freedom until she left to run 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 mat unloaded. they started prosecuting me ever. so i had no choice but to leave iran in order to stay away his fundamentals. and since then i've been able to work much more actively, all over them. but he said, i saw the com for you since the islamic revolution, the u. s. is seen as the countries main enemy. iran presents itself as united with

china and russia in their fight against the waste. but in private, behind closed doors, things are a bit different. yeah, as a does, it's much bill and one example is this twitter account called rich kids of tehran. i looked in which tries to show how the regime does not follow its own principles, estes's machine the to least, and they haven't built up this religious dictatorship in the country in law with its rules and oppression would, is atlantic youth addicted to what then we see their own children in the league 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 told me to get, i admit, in ask of axle seemed to listen to look, that's western bread and super fancy that feed 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 apologizing too often it's the children of islamic revolutionary guard corps who are there because they are never subject to controls. don't got these. no one can buy

a check whether people are dancing, whether men and women are mixing, whether alcohol is being consumed are 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, discipline, economic power in iran, the, each of they control the whole national economy, forks, their trough, many companies, they 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 struggled 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 ping that you need for leaving it last bad. a lot of years and more, but it war wars and war and now toilet labor. the

regimes revolutionary god doesn't just control the economy, but also the media and the judiciary. it is a powerful parallel army with 200000 members and is notorious for its vi lens against female demonstrators. iranians at home and abroad are calling on the european union to put the revolutionary god on the e u. terror list. in february, thousands went to brussels to voice. this demand also a rainy and medina, barza was also there and you know, 100 photos to sarge, a man to the you is that laces dot their double standards of islands. we have a regime in power in iran, which is so terrible and so inhumane, that it cannot be condoned that has come and gone. it doesn't bumped on yet. and if you building behind us, they sit down at a table and negotiate and who deals with these people handle on launch for 3 right

now. stop doing business with these terrorist that's our main demand for the e. u has imposed sanctions on individual members of the revolutionary god, but not against the organization as a whole. 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 he has never said is, what of the islamic republic no longer existed it than get distinct than the world's largest finance or of terror would cease to exist to them human that there were no more war in yemen. they rushed could to fight its own politics,

cannot there would be no prudent supporters in mom at the moment. they are best friends, the launching thousands of on the all iran since thousands of drones to russia in trance russian soldiers to use them and no crane war or clinic. when it comes to taking aaron's regime to task, there are many factors to consider is he have them, and boy veg, they've built up, has the law as a bulwark. the market knowledge, they've had their missiles pointing at israel for years that touch on that yahoo 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 a hostile exiled opposition parties have joined forces with his common purpose, including the son of the last shot, who has many supporters, but also critics, iranians at home and abroad one to put aside their differences for the greater good

. they're young and old, have different political convictions and come from different provinces with different ethnic minorities bayshore dose theme when people shout from kurdistan to the he done, i give my life for a run at the demonstrations. it shows you only channel shaggy children. if men stand protectively in front of women risking their lives where their eyesight em all, yet if they are beating up or imprisoned back, it demonstrates men support for women. by my fact, 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 go bit 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 whom i left. and i know that if the rulers fall on the people can decide for themselves school, love it who, who, marty ruler. so we are a very rich country in on saturday. i mean apparel very has we have good universities, donors, foyer, through the whole, we have of all the possibilities for further developmental yet. it, he shuffled doughty, ah, what do you wish for your future in iran? i fish happiness in it on. i loved the cannot make progress, and i don't want them on my message was for me that people shouldn't make decisions for themselves and their mach cassie boon. my name is

doug i, i, bad than them. you know, now i don't know if i will live long enough for my wish to come true. i'm all manner but like many others on, i wish for peace for the people of iran. i tell more than we have lost so many years of the care. the joy we didn't have as was the, the grief we had to endure the pain in our hearts with your food outside. so i want the next generations to be spared that and that's why they be before i automatically treated us women like slaves. now we're saying we want our own life. we want freedom. not until to day being a woman was like being the slave from now on. i think being a woman is synonymous with life and freedom um, ah,

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