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Woman, Life, Freedom, Paperback / softback Book

Woman, Life, Freedom Paperback / softback

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A collaboration of activists, artists, journalists, and academics working together to depict the historic uprising - with comics that show what would be censored in photos and film in Iran - in solidarity with the Iranian people, in defence of feminism.

On September 13th 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the religious police in Tehran.

Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic.

At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma.

She died three days later. The plight of this 22-year-old woman raised a wave of protests that soon spread through the whole country, and crowds adopted the slogan 'Woman, Life, Freedom.' Around the world, these words have been chanted during solidarity rallies.

In this powerful visual collection of graphic novel style essays, Marjane Satrapi has gathered together intense narration by herself and an array

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