Mechristopheles @insectking

Writing, editing and illustrating in Africa. Africa Joined February 2009

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Mechristopheles @insectking

18 hours ago

@JHBWater Same shit; different day.

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Mechristopheles @insectking

3 weeks ago

@EmpoweredComic That sucks. Empowered is cool.

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Mechristopheles @insectking

2 months ago

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

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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. Rs 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.

Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih

2 months ago

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

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Mechristopheles @insectking

2 months ago

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

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Mechristopheles @insectking

2 months ago

@JHBWater The same lies as usual.

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Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih

3 months ago

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.