As protests continue to sweep across Iran following the death of a young woman who’d been detained by Iranian “morality police,” the WGA West and its Middle Eastern Writers Committee have released a statement in solidarity with the women-led activists there.
The protests were sparked after Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, was violently detained by Iranian authorities this month for wearing “improper” attire. She died three days later while still in custody.
The WGAW committee said:
On Wednesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said, “We all are saddened by this tragic incident,” but he added that “chaos is unacceptable.”
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