I warned about child trafficking, and many called me crazy. Now the Epstein files have brought these horrific issues into the spotlight. The truth must be faced, and the children must be protected.
This is Naaz Gul. She was 14 when she was sold into marriage with the local mayor, a 63 year old man who already had 3 wives.
Days after the wedding, this video went viral on social media. Because other men had now seen Naaz’s face, her husband felt dishonored — so he strangled her.
He has never been arrested or punished in any way.
One out of every 6 women and girls was sold into marriage as a child, most of them to Muslim men. That’s 8% of the human race, sold into sexual slavery before they’re old enough to vote — not that they’re allowed to vote, of course.
This is Marziyeh a woman from my country Iran. Look at her face. She had acid thrown on her face because her hijab was considered “inappropriate.”
Two things about her story break my heart.
First: for more than a decade, I have watched powerful female politicians from the West visit my country, cover their hair, and tell us they are doing it to “respect Iranian culture.”
Iranian culture didn’t do this to her. Theocracy did.
Compulsory hijab is not our culture. It is the culture of those who use religion to control women. Iranian women have paid with prison, lashes, their eyes, their faces, and sometimes their lives for saying NO to it.
Second: the United Nations elected the Islamic Republic to its Commission on the Status of Women.
Yes. The regime that brutalizes women over their hair was chosen to help oversee women’s rights.
That’s like putting the arsonist on the fire-safety committee.
So that is why I am determined to ate the West to respect women. Not the Islamic Ideology that destroy our lives.
My speech at United Against Gender confers Apartheid in Berlin
It has been 200 days since the Epstein files were released with zero prosecutions.
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career. There are 3 million files of documented evidence about powerful men and women who
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Hunted
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children!
Remember: this is a minority of the files. This's just what they were willing to release.
Not a single arrest or investigation. ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
We called on the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over the full Epstein files to the UN Special Rapporteurs and UN independent committees for investigations, as this is an international case of crimes against humanity. But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN's top human rights official didn't even care to open an investigation or listen to our call for the DOJ, nor utter a single word regarding the largest human trafficking network in modern history.
Epstein pedophiles are investigating Epstein files. We wonder why nobody arrested. Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people. And the media isn't silent about child sex trafficking because of the children. It’s silent because of who the customers are!
The Epstein files is never really about just a "list." It is about children raped by powerful men, and a system that let them get away with it.
The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over.
The Epstein files is about protecting children. There's no greater cause. If people can't unite over children being raped and abused there's no hope for humanity.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
Il #16agosto 1924 venne ritrovato il corpo di Giacomo Matteotti, ucciso dai fascisti per aver denunciato le violenze e i brogli elettorali da loro perpetrati.
“Uccidete pure me, ma l’idea che è in me non la ucciderete mai”. Antifasciste e antifascisti, sempre.
We will hold the Taliban accountable for their heinous crimes. We will have justice for Afghan women and girls. We will end gender apartheid. To learn more, follow @EGACampaign and @MalalaFund
This is another Iranian woman who is about to be executed soon.
Every morning I write about someone Iran has just executed; within minutes, a message arrives from a mother, a sister, a friend, begging me to write about their loved one on death row. Before it's too late.
That's why I want to write before this young woman's execution, not after. Arghavan Fallahi. 24 years old. Evin Prison. Sentenced to death.
Judge Salavati, one of Iran's most notorious executioner judges, sentenced her on the charge of "Baghi," armed rebellion.
For months in solitary confinement, she was subjected to severe psychological torture and pressure to extract forced confessions. But she refused. So they sentenced her to death anyway.
Fellow female prisoners who were with Arghavan inside Evin say her situation is urgent. The torture has left her with severe psychological trauma and physical illness. She's not only facing the death sentence, she's suffering right now, inside that cell. But she's still alive and there's still time to save her life.
Please, join me and help us Iranians say her name now and demand that the international community and world leaders pressure that republic to halt her execution and those of other political prisoners.
#StopExecutionsInIran
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.
Islamic Republic in Iran hangs 24-Year-old woman who defended herself from sexual assault
Yesterday the regime executed Marziyeh Neyri yesterday, a young woman who was forced into marriage at age 17 and hanged for fighting back against her attacker.
Marziyeh was 18 years old when her husband's associate attempted to sexually assault her in her own home, in front of her husband. She grabbed a kitchen knife to defend herself. Her husband died in the struggle.
She told the court she had been repeatedly assaulted by her husband's associates before that day. Iran's courts didn't care.
The regime rejected her self-defense claim. Her attacker, who survived, took the stand and called her a murderer. The court believed him over her.
She was sentenced to death.
No clemency. No mercy. The sentence was carried out at Chubindar Prison in Qazvin.
Marziyeh Neyri never had a chance. Forced into marriage as a child under Iran's Islamic laws, she spent the few years of her adult life in a courtroom, fighting for her life after defending it.
She lost.
This is the Sharia Laws in Islamic Republic of Iran where a woman can be hanged for surviving.
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