Iranians protest over acid attacks on women

Brave Iranian women protest acid attacks by regime affiliated mobs AFP -22 Oct 2014 - The demonstration in Isfahan, the country’s top tourist destination, where the victims were injured in the past week by assailants on motorcycles, prompting shock across the country. 'Isfahan is our city, security is our right,' the crowd chanted outside Isfahan’s judiciary building, waving banners and placards, according to the official IRNA news agency. Under Islamic law in force in Iran since the 1979 revolution, women must wear loose clothing, known as hijab, that covers the head and neck and which conceals their hair. But many women now wear a headscarf and thin coat rather than the chador, a traditional black garment that covers the body from head to toe. Morality police with the power of arrest patrol public areas and decide if women are observing the law. The Isfahan protest prompted a frenzy of online activity. One video uploaded on Facebook heard demonstrators chanting: 'Down with the religious extremists.' The protest came as Iran’s health minister Hassan Hashemi visited one victim at a city hospital. The woman, covered in bandages, gave a harrowing account of how she has lost sight in her right eye. 'I was a student, I am educated, I was behind the wheel of my car and then the attacker took my life away from me,' the victim, named as Soheila Jorkesh, was quoted as saying by IRNA. 'Nobody knew how to help me at the time. It took 45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive,' she said. 'I am the only daughter of this family. My left eye still has sight. Please help me so that I can see.' http://www.mojahedin.org/newsen/31278