Afsaneh Azimzade is a woman’s rights activist, as well as an activist for the rights of children; or to put it more correctly, as is known in Iran, an activist for the rights of working street children. Iran’s big cities streets are full of street children, doing all kinds of menial so called “jobs” to support their families. They are regularly beaten, harassed, abused, taken advantage of, etc.; and there are activists such as Afsaneh, faced with many abuses from the authorities themselves, that are doing all in their power to defend these little hapless creatures’ rights; if there are any! Azimzadeh is a member of an association called “Association for the Defense of Work and Street Children”.
On the evening of December 14th, she
was on her way to visit her mother in a hospital, who was infected with Coronavirus.
She was arrested upon arrival at the hospital by security forces and was
transferred to “an unknown” location. Another group of these forces raided her
father’s home and took all of Afsaneh’s belongings.
This is the Islamic regime in nutshell. It has
taken the whole country hostage and if anyone does anything about it, it will
send its coercive forces to lock her/him up! A story with “to be continued!” for
over 40 years! This a country that women are constitutionally considered to
have half of a man’s rights. Minorities have no equal rights. Children are
property of adult males. Women are the sexual property of their male guardians.
Afsaneh Azimzadeh is arrested, not by unknown forces
as has been reported, but by the very same forces that have been arresting and
killing other activists as well as dissident street protesters for the duration
of this regime’s life. She is not taken to “an unknown” location, but taken to
one of the Islamic regime’s notorious prisons that everyone knows where they
are.
