The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday August 22nd, 2023
Iran Repression Continues: NGO Action Needed by Rene Wadlow
Repression of protests in Iran continues. A wave of protests swept across Iran in the wake of the September 2022 death in custody of 22 year-old Mahsa Jina Animi, an ethnic Kurd. It is estimated that the Iranian security forces have killed over 500 protesters, and have arrested some 20,000 persons of all ethnic and religious backgrounds. (1)
In response to the State-led violence, the United Nations Human Rights Council has created on 24 November 2022 the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran with the chairmanship of Sera Hossain of Bangladesh.
One aspect of the repression of protests is that religious leaders of the Sunni Muslim communities especially in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province and the Kurdish provences are being increasingly targeted by the Islamic Republic authorities for arrest and imprisonment because of their peaceful criticism of the repression of protests. Iran is a majority Shia Muslim country, and Shiism is the official religion of the State.
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Snow Globe #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I gaze at the snow globe
And remember those
Ragged roads through
Rugged mountain ranges,
Grazing sheep on steep slopes”
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Ant-Biotics #22 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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