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AkaashMaharaj t1_iuihsj7 wrote

It has been forty-five days since Mahsa Amini, a 22 year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, died in police custody in Iran. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious morality police for not wearing the hijab, as required by the state. Eyewitnesses report that police beat her viciously before her death.

Her death has unleashed waves of mass protests across Iran, often under the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom”, and often led by young women. The government of Iran has responded with repression, and by cutting off internet access in the province of Kurdistan.

Many observers are asking if this could be the beginning of a new phase of mass repression by the Iranian state, or the beginning of the end for the Iranian regime.

We are delighted to have Dorsa Jabbari with us to discuss the protests, their impact in Iran, and the potential consequences across the world.

Dorsa Jabbari was born in Iran and immigrated to Canada at the age of ten. She completed a Bachelor degree in English and Fine Art History from the University of Toronto. After five years working at CTV, Canada’s largest private television network, Dorsa moved to Qatar, to join the launch of Al Jazeera English. She returned to Iran in 2010, to work as Al Jazeera’s primary correspondent in the country.

She tweets at @DorsaJabbari

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Alex will moderate the written discussion thread, and will put a representative cross-section of questions and comments to our guest. Alex leads some of Reddit’s largest communities, including r/WorldNews, r/News, r/Politics, and r/Geopolitics.

Willian will support the Talk. He leads a range of Reddit communities, including r/WorldNews, r/AskLatinAmerica, r/Brazil, and r/Europe. He tweets at @Tetizera.

I, Akaash, will moderate the conversation. Outside Reddit, I serve as Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, and as a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s School of Global Affairs. At Reddit, I lead the r/Equestrian community. I tweet at @AkaashMaharaj and I am on Instagram at @AkaashMaharaj.

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Dorsa Jabbari

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