Mechristopheles

Writing, editing and illustrating in Africa.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater Will we be dry for one week or three this time?

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Before her execution, she recorded a message for her mother:

"I want the world to know what is being done to me."

Reyhaneh Jabbari was 19 when a former intelligence officer tried to sexually assault her. She fought back. He died. She spent seven years in Evin Prison. The world signed petitions. Iran sharpened the rope. She was 26. Iran hanged her anyway.
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Under Sharia law in Iran, to prove rape, a woman must produce four male witnesses to the act itself.

Four. Male. Witnesses.

If she cannot, her accusation becomes a confession. She is no longer the victim. She is the criminal and faces flogging. Or prison. Or death.

This is not ancient history. This is the law that is still on the books today. The law that Abdul El-Sayed is asking Americans not to fear.

Women in Iran don't have a #MeToo movement. They have a noose.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater We've been dry for a week. No one believes your bypass story.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater The same lies as usual.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I am terrified of this new Fatva: Mohammad-Bagher Kharazi, Secretary-General of Hezbollah Iran, openly calls for killing women over the hijab.

He is one of Mojtaba Khamenei's closest associates, and his sister is married to Masoud Khamenei the son of Ali Khamenei.

Listen to how he urges every Basiji and every morality police officer to return to the streets and assault unveiled women.

One of the woman inside Iran told me, If threats, violence, and even murder could have forced us into submission, we would never have moved beyond the baggy manteaus and chin-strap headscarves of the 1980s.

This is the true face of the Islamic Republic. And while the world keeps silent, they will keep beating us. They will keep imprisoning us. They will keep killing us.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@SAsecular *Randi

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater This is how the last time we had more than three dry weeks started.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater Fourth day dry.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater Three days dry.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater Oh no, are our taps still dry because people are protesting the dry taps?

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@omid9 Forcing unwilling people into burqas is bigotry. Got it.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater Everything you typed is vague and worthless prevarication. No one believes you.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@eNCA Ah, yes. The "blame the victims" strategy. A classic tactic of arseholes everywhere.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@JHBWater @DadaMorero No one believes him. He's lying. You can tell he's lying because his mouth is open.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@TeaQu3en @JHBWater

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@DarthPutinKGB Ha ha ha ha. Kompromat has no political immunity.

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@CityPowerJhb When will this black out be resolved?

[Mechristopheles @insectking]

@DarthPutinKGB Oh it's Michah "Peter Hitchens" Clarke not actually Peter Hitchens.