WHERE AND TO WHOM IRANIAN WOMEN AND MEN WILL CONVEY THEIR PROTEST VOICES?
On June 12th, 70 individuals, 42 of them women, were arrested in the demonstration held to protest the laws that are against women in Iran at the Hafte Tir Public Square in Tehran. The intervention of the security forces in the womens protest demonstrations began with the arrests of those who made protest calls and of the active members of womens associations. On the afternoon of June 12th, under the auspices of male police officers and civil members of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, female police officers entered the houses of protester women and arrested lots of women after beating them. These events always recur in the country and have now been the identifying feature of these kinds of protest demonstrations. The organizers and the participants of the demonstrations know what will be the reaction of the state to them. On the other hand, the government and the security forces have already perceived that they will the target of criticisms after these events. The new government cannot
