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2022 PLV Scholarship Winner Aran Zakeri on Immigrating to America from Iran & Striving to Create a More Just World
In recent months, civil unrest in Iran has been front and center of the global political stage, galvanized by the unlawful murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Aminî. The young Kurdish woman, an aspiring lawyer whom family called by her Kurdish name Jîna (also spelled Zhina), was targeted by Iran’s morality police in September. After mere hours spent in police custody, she arrived at a hospital braindead before succumbing to her injuries. Her crime? Showing a few strands of hair beneath her hijab (headscarf) in a way that violated the Islamic Republic’s dress code for women. The Islamic Regime’s sheer brutality and utter disregard for the fundamental human rights and liberties of its citizens…