Women's Day: Iranian women vow to press on despite clampdown – DW – 03/08/2023

'That's what bothers the security authorities: the courage of women who think independently and stand up for what they believe is right. And there are many of them in Iran,' an Iranian lawyer told DW's ShabnamvonHein. IWD2023 InternationalWomensDay

"The protests were unprecedented in our city. In the first seven days, three-quarters of the protesters were women," Leila, from a city in the country's Kurdish region, told DW. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatThe first rallies took place at Jina Mahsa Amini's funeral in her Kurdish hometown.

"The security services were surprised by our courage," Leila said."I even had the feeling that they were afraid." "Not for the first time. In the last few years, I have been arrested several times. But this time it was different. The people who interrogated me had less self-confidence and were visibly nervous," she noted.

About 20,000 people were arrested by early January. Some of them were released from overcrowded prisons by the end of February.

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