The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday December 6th, 2022 – Finland’s Independence Day
U.N. Human Rights Council Focus on Iran by Rene Wadlow
On 24 November 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a Special Session on the human rights situation in Iran. A Special Session is the highest form of attention which the Human Rights Council can take. The Foreign Minister of Germany came in person to Geneva to present the Special Session resolution. The resolution which was adopted calls for the creation of a special fact-finding mission to investigate “alleged human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
Such fact-finding is an essential step towards ensuring that perpetrators are held responsible for their abuses. While it is unlikely that the government of Iran will allow the fact-finding group to enter the country, the creation of the group after a heated debate indicates the wide-spread international concern with the repression of the demonstrations and the death sentences given by courts to at least five protesters accused of “moharebek” (waging war against God).
The manifestations began on 16 September 2022 concerning the death of a 22-year old woman Mahsa Animi at the hands of the “morality police”. She had been arrested for showing too much of her hair under the mandatory veil – the hijab. Now women cutting their hair in public has become one of the symbols of the manifestations. The first cries were “Women-Life-Liberty” (Zan- Zevdegi-Azadi) and were focused on women’s issues.
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The Exile #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“He woke up
In the age of
Machine men,
Cold steel streets,
Brick and cement beats,
A merciless world of
Factories and smoke stacks,
Green fog fingering the city.”
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Mika Toxica #42 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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