By Organizing Joint Campaign, Let Us Crush the Aggression of the Dictatorial and Reactionary Regime Against the Libertarian Struggles!

November 6, 2024

The nakedness of a student in protest against the harsh treatment of the security guards of the university and the wide video coverage of this event and the publication of the news of Ahoo Daryaei being hospitalized in an unnamed mental hospital, caused wide-ranging reactions in the society. The scope of these reactions was not limited to Iran and had global repercussions. Amnesty International and the United Nations human rights representative, the Socialist Party of France and a number of others, condemned the regime agents' treatment of this female doctorate student at the university and demanded her release and respect for women's rights. A group of French women also demonstrated in support of her in Paris. However, the security and the regime officials tried to neutralize the protest nature of this action by accusing Ahoo Daryaei of mental illness and admitting her to a mental hospital. Accusing civil and political fighters and protesters of "mental illness" and putting them in hospital is certainly not unprecedented in the Islamic Republic.

The protest against the mandatory hijab and the repressive treatment of it continues in a situation where one of the promises made by Pezeshkian and his supporters in the presidential "elections" was to dismantle mandatory hijab. With this description, the suppression of women who are not willing to comply with the mandatory hijab has continued in Pezeshkian government, and the most obvious example of this is the treatment that took place with Ahoo Daryaei in the shadow of the government's silence.
The freedom to choose how to wear is a part of the obvious rights that women have been fighting for for decades along with their other egalitarian demands. For this reason, the abolition of the mandatory hijab was one of the most important goals of the revolutionary and democratic anti-discrimination and egalitarian movement "Women, Life, Freedom". By removing and burning their headscarves and refusing to wear them, women took a big step to end the mandatory hijab as one of the symbols of discrimination and misogyny of the Islamic regime. However, the reactionary and despotic rulers have been trying to prevent this valuable achievement from women for a long time.

The Left Party of Iran condemns the regime's repressive treatment of Ahoo Daryaei and other women and supports the protests in defense of her and against the mandatory hijab. We invite the fighting people of our country, civil and political institutions, progressive and freedom-loving forces to demand the immediate release of Ahoo Daryaei by launching joint campaigns. Only with our united struggles we can crush the aggression of tyranny and its reaction to libertarian struggles!

Political-Executive Board of the Left Party of Iran
November 6, 2024