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2023-10-29 01:50:24

Tehran: 16-year-old Armita Geravand died following being beaten up by the women police in Iran for not wearing hijab. Reports surfaced that Armita was brain dead last week. On October 1st, Armita was beaten by the morality police for violating hijab rules on a train at Shohada metro station in Tehran.

Armita, who was unconscious, was taken out of the train by her friends. However, the Iranian authorities deny the allegation. The police say that Armita fell unconscious due to low blood pressure and during this the back of her head hit the rail of the train. Armita’s family, originally from Kermanshah in Kurdish-majority western Iran, currently lives in the country’s capital, Tehran.

The military hospital in Tehran where Armita was treated was under heavy security. It is alleged that the police threatened Armita’s family members. In September last year, the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini following she was beaten up by the morality police for not wearing hijab led to massive protests in the country.

Mahsa died while being treated for head injuries while in police custody. Later, ‘anti-hijab protests’ started in the country. Over 500 people were killed and over 20,000 arrested during the protests. The ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran may intensify with Armita’s death.

Laws without change

Despite the protests, the Iranian government has taken steps to tighten the country’s mandatory hijab law. Earlier this year, authorities announced that they would use ‘facial recognition technology’ and CCTV cameras to identify women who fail to comply with the requirement to wear headscarves.

In July, patrols by the morality police resumed to punish women who did not cover their heads with hijab in public places. In the context of the protests that followed the death of Mahsa Amini, Sadachara police had stopped patrolling. There were reports that the morality police had been disbanded, but Iran later denied this.

The moral police are the ones who monitor whether people are following religious matters. The police unit, called Gasht-e-Irshad, or ‘Guidance Patrol’, was established in 2005 during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It began patrolling in 2006. Women were jailed if they did not dress properly. In 2021, Ibrahim Raisi became president, and surveillance by the morality police was intensified.

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2023-10-27 01:42:22

Bratislava: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fitzow stopped the military aid given to Ukraine the day following taking office. Pro-Russian Fitzo announced yesterday that he would no longer supply Ukraine with arms but would continue to provide humanitarian aid. He also said that the EU should turn from arms suppliers to peacemakers to end conflicts.

Fitzo also criticized Western sanctions once morest Russia. Fitzo, 59, was Slovakia’s prime minister from 2006 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2018. Fitzo’s Direction – Social Democracy party came out on top in elections earlier this month in Slovakia, a member of the European Union and NATO, winning 42 of the 150 seats in the parliament. The majority wants 76 seats.

Subsequently, Voj formed a coalition government with the Slovak National Party. At the same time, Russia did not react significantly to Slovakia’s decision to stop military aid to Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Slovakia does not have a major role in supplying arms to Ukraine, so Slovakia’s decision will not affect the current conflict. Slovakia previously provided Ukraine with fighter jets, S-300 defense system and armored vehicles.

Behind the animosity

In January 2009, when Fitzo was Prime Minister. A conflict has arisen between Russia and Ukraine over natural gas. Russian gas has stopped flowing through Ukraine to EU countries. This incident in the middle of winter caused a great crisis in Slovakia.

Factories were forced to close due to lack of gas. It is estimated that this cost the Slovak economy around 100 million euros per day. With this, Fitzo had a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin, the then Prime Minister of Russia, and Yulia Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Later, a Slovak delegation led by Fitzo arrived in Kyiv to meet with the Ukrainian government. However, the group had to wait for several hours in Kiev. Three hours later, the delegation was escorted by Ukrainian authorities to a meeting packed with journalists. At the press conference, Tymoshenko strongly criticized Fitzow for taking Russia’s side in the gas dispute.

It lasted for regarding 20 minutes. This infuriated Fitzo. The group soon reached Moscow. There they were received by Putin in an elaborate ceremony at the Kremlin’s St. George’s Hall. It was following this incident that Fitzo began to publicly express his anti-Ukraine stance.

NATO has a headache

Fitzow’s moves might cause headaches for NATO and Ukraine. Fitzo’s main election campaign promise was to end military aid to Ukraine if he came to power. Fitzo supports Russia and is once morest America. Blaming American intervention as the cause of conflict in Ukraine, Fitzo says that Ukraine should be ready for peace talks with Russia.

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