Iran added the DW service in Farsi on Wednesday (October 26) to its list of sanctioned institutions and persons. The latest sanctions also apply to two German companies and two editors of the German newspaper Bild.
DW: “This is unacceptable”
Director General of Deutsche Welle (DW) Peter Limbourg condemned Iran’s attempts to intimidate journalists. “The regime in Iran has long threatened our Farsi colleagues and their families. This is unacceptable,” he said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Farsi is the name used by Persian as the official language of Iran. It is one of several dozen languages in which Deutsche Welle produces journalistic material.
Mass protests in Iran
“The regime supports terrorism at home and abroad. I expect politicians in Germany and Europe to increase the pressure on the regime. The fact that we are now on such a list will not stop us from providing reliable information to users in Iran,” the statement read.
Deutsche Welle, like many other world media, regularly reports on anti-government protests in Iran. Their cause was the death of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman. Mahsa Amini was detained by a police deputy on suspicion of violating the Islamic Dress Code. The woman died in police custody on September 16. Since his death, thousands of people have demonstrated against the suppression of the Islamic government in Tehran.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Mexico. Graffiti at the Iranian embassy
As a sign of solidarity with Iranian women and to honor the memory of Jina Mahsa Amini, the woman sprayed messages on the walls of the Iranian embassy in Mexico against the “macho state” of Iran.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Frankfurt. The disheveled hair of an angry protester
Iran’s moral police have arrested 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini for allegedly “dressing non-Muslims”. Then he fell into a coma, and three days later he died in the hospital. The police said they did not use force, but hardly anyone believed it. Many women have experienced firsthand how brutal Iran’s morals are. In the picture, there is a symbol of an angry protester with his hair down.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Milan. Marge Simpson solidarity with scissors
Iranian women cut their hair in front of the camera in protest. Marge Simpson did the same on the wall of the house overlooking the Iranian Consulate in Milan. The author of the painting is street artist AleXsandro Palombo.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Paris. Honorary citizenship for deceased Kurdish women
The figure of Jina Mahsa Amini and the protests in Iran are commemorated in Paris not only with murals. The city wants to posthumously grant honorary Kurdish citizenship and name one of the places after. “So that no one forgets it,” Mayor Anne Hidalgo announced last week. “Paris will always be on the side of those who fight for their rights and freedoms,” he added.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Frankfurt. “Women, Life and Freedom”
Artists from the group “Collective Without a Name” painted a picture of Jina Mahsa Amini in an abandoned building in Frankfurt. Next to her portrait they placed three Kurdish words: “Jin, jiyan, azadi”, which means “Woman, life, freedom”. Today is the slogan of people demonstrating against the mullah regime in Tehran.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Krakow: Solidarity with Iranian Women
The rise of women against their oppressors in Iran deserves our solidarity, many women say. And they take to the streets all over the world, also here in Krakow. In many places around the world, women are disadvantaged and even discriminated against because of their gender. The idea of a feminist revolution in Iran fascinated many of them.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Tehran. art student protest
Fine arts students at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran staged a protest on Monday in front of the faculty building. The red paint on their hands symbolizes the bloody suppression of protests by security forces.
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Protest against Iran. Graffiti from Tehran to Mexico
Desired domino effect
The protests after Mahsa Amini’s death were directed not only against the strict dress code for girls and women. Across the country, demonstrators challenged the system and chanted “Get rid of the mullahs” or “Death to the dictator.” This is true of the religious and political leader Ali Khamenei.
Not only DW
Other sanctioned institutions include the Persian service of Radio France International and the International Committee of Justice (ISJ), an informal group of EU lawmakers who support democracy in Iran.
The move follows a series of sanctions imposed by the European Union on October 17 on “people who have committed serious human rights violations.” After protests in Iran were quelled, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said there was no question of doing business with Tehran “as usual”.
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