Journalist Who Sparked Iran Riots Remains Suspended Because #TwitterHatesWomen

Stop the Presses - 26 September 2022

The Twitter account of Niloofar Hamedi, who reported the murder of Mahsa Amini which sparked the riots in Iran, remains suspended at the request of someone in Teheran. Like her Twitter account, Hamedi has been disappeared by the state. Remember when “big tech” was going to save the world for democracy? As always, the oppression begins with talkative women. Much praise to Mandy Stadtmiller for making this point that mainstream media seems to want to ignore, for some reason.

Rabbitholed #59: Why Are Iranians Asking the World to "Be Our Voice"? Because the Journalist Who Broke the Story of How Iran's "Morality Police" Killed Mahsa Amini Is Now...Arrested. In Prison.

Women were a key force in the 1979 Revolution. They wore red berets and combat boots and chanted “Death to America” outside the US embassy. Back then, the women of Iran felt more free than they ever had before. Iran’s feminists saw a world of possibility opening up. When the Ayatollah imposed the hijab in 1982, the country was at war with Iraq, and many women accepted the hijab as a kind of political uniform — an example of the “rally around the flag” effect.

But oppression is oppression, and the women of Iran are do…