Protest against Iranian government held in Niagara Square

BUFFALO, N.Y. — After the loss of life of a 22-year-old girl in Iran final month, 1000’s world wide are taking to the streets in protest.

The protests started after a 22-year-old girl died whereas in custody, following a violation by Iran’s so-called “morality police” for what they referred to as a violation of their gown code.   

Saturday’s protest in Niagara Sq. in Buffalo was organized by Nadia Shahram, Esq., who’s a local of Tehran.

The protesters say they’re rallying for human rights. A lot of these taking part Saturday morning have private ties to Iran, whereas others need to present their assist by protesting in solidarity with people who find themselves protesting in Iran proper now. 

Those that organized the protest in downtown Buffalo say they need folks in Iran to have the ability to specific themselves with out concern of retaliation or getting killed.

“It is about human rights, so I’ll at all times elevate my voice if one thing is about human rights,” College at Buffalo graduate scholar Fae Hajhosseini mentioned.

“And the second place, it is about ladies’s proper, so they need to, I believe that they need to select no matter they need to do, whether or not they need to put on, so it is about their fundamental rights, they don’t seem to be asking for one thing very, very particular and really, very huge, however that is solely concerning the fundamental rights, so I believe at the very least I might be their voice overseas the place I can converse up.” 

Added Ali Hasanzadeh, a UB graduate scholar: “It is getting bigger and bigger on daily basis. We hope for Islamic Republic of Iran to get lower from the roots, and for a brand new Iran, a democratic Iran to start out a brand new chapter.”

Hasanzadeh research philosophy and helped arrange this protest.

“This isn’t only a political act in opposition to a particular regime,” Hasanzadeh mentioned. “We’ve nothing in opposition to any faith or something. That is about human rights. We’ve folks, it is about ladies’s rights, about little one labor, about worldwide safety.

“It does concern each single human being on this planet to be involved, to fret about ladies and men dying for displaying the slightest indicators of disagreement with the federal government.”

One of many organizers of the occasion left Iran within the Nineteen Seventies earlier than the revolution and desires the rights she and different ladies in her household skilled earlier than the revolution to be restored.

“My grandmother’s technology labored too exhausting for the rights, which we’re having fun with now. If we aren’t cautious, it is going to be taken away from us in a heartbeat,” mentioned Shahram, who’s a local of Tehran.

Simply this week, the USA issued extra sanctions on Iran in response to the Iranian authorities’s violent actions in opposition to peaceable protesters and for shutting down the web there.