Erika Holmquist

Analyst Middle East/Central Asia. Lover of Gheyme Bademjoon.

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

🔴 BREAKING

Human Rights Council president Federico Villegas has appointed the members of the recently established Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of #Iran:

- Sara Hossain of Bangladesh (chair)
- Shaheen Sardar Ali of Pakistan
- Viviana Krsticevic of Argentina

[Saman Rasoulpour @SamRasoulpour]

بیانیه مهمی است. ماموستاها و‌شخصیت‌های دینی کردستان خواستار برگزاری رفراندوم با نظارت جهانی شدند.

#پیرانشهر #جوانرود #سنندج #مهاباد

[Erika Holmquist @ErikaHolmquist]

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦!

[Ali Ehsassi @AliEhsassi]

Thank you to Ministers’ Mendicino and Fraser for designating the Islamic Republic of Iran as a regime that engages in terrorism and systematic and gross human rights violations.
All senior officials, diplomats and members of the judiciary are now deemed inadmissible to Canada.

[Ali Vaez @AliVaez]

Iran’s Protests Are the First Counter-Revolution Led by Women https://t.co/8OlZDgkQHE

[Nazanin Boniadi @NazaninBoniadi]

Iranians aren’t just fighting compulsory hijab, they’re fighting:

• Gender apartheid
• Forced confessions
• No due process
• Unfair trials
• Extrajudicial killings
• No free expression
• Torture
• child marriage
• Government corruption
• Funding of terror
• Theocracy

[soh3il @soh3il]

Universities and places of education are sacred. Stop the bloodshed at Sharif university. #MahsaAmini #شریف #دانشگاه_شریف

[Hadi Nili @HadiNili]

Khamenei's security apparatus have arrested Shervin Hajipour after publishing this song; singing out ppl yearnings & grievances that they posted during #IranProtests for #MahsaAmini.
The song made a hit w/ more than 40m views on @instagram in less than 48h but was removed today.

[Karim Sadjadpour @ksadjadpour]

I spoke w/ @elonmusk about Starlink in Iran, he gave me permission to share this: “Starlink is now activated in Iran. It requires the use of terminals in-country, which I suspect the [Iranian] government will not support, but if anyone can get terminals into Iran, they will work"

[NetBlocks @netblocks]

⚠️ Confirmed: Mobile internet has been disrupted in #Iran for a third time; live metrics show a nation-scale loss of connectivity on leading cellular operator MCI (First) amid protests over the death of #MahsaAmini

📊 Live Feed: https://t.co/nrj1jLGe9K
📰 https://t.co/8cCHIJAADQ

[Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky]

A bipartisan group of Members of the U.S. Congress have written to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging her to immediately grant Elon Musk’s satellite Internet service Starlink a license to operate in #Iran. #MahsaAmini

https://t.co/z1DHPYvsb9

[Frida Ghitis @FridaGhitis]

It’s a womens’s revolution. Men are joining in. They’re all fed up with the regime.

[Holly Dagres @hdagres]

Elderly Iranian woman takes off her headscarf and chants, “Death to Khamenei” in Rasht, the capital of Gilan province. #Mahsa_Amini

[Holly Dagres @hdagres]

Teenage Iranian girls take off their headscarves (shawls) and chant, "Our shawl, our shawl, our noose!" as they set them ablaze. #Mahsa_Amini

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[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Do you really want to know how Iranian morality police killed Mahsa Amini 22 year old woman? Watch this video and do not allow anyone to normalize compulsory hijab and morality police.

The Handmaid's Tale by @MargaretAtwood is not a fiction for us Iranian women. It’s a reality.

[Ladane Nasseri @LadaneNasseri]

Here's something I wrote for @mcsweeneys. Any resemblance to actual persons, actual locales, actual events or actual news reports is, obviously, purely coincidental.
https://t.co/QlDs5fpNmO