GILARI GILANI

Kermanshah- Iran is going to hold parliamentary elections this Friday. 61 million 173, 298 voters across the country are expected to cast their votes. Days before the elections, many people have been calling for boycotting the elections, condemning the system of the oppressive Iranian regime.

A human rights defender from Kermanshah sent a message to NuJINHA, calling for boycotting the elections.

 “As women of Kermanshah, we follow in footsteps of Minoo Majidi (a protester, who was shot and killed in Kermanshah by Iranian forces on 20 September 2022) and we boycott the regime’s elections to show that our struggle and resistance still continue and that the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi revolutionary movement is still active. In Kermanshah, the blood of Minoo Majidi, young people and women is wet on the streets. How can we forget everything and vote to legitimize the totalitarian regime that kills women and children? A regime that has lost its legitimacy for years but can only survive by suppressing protests, arresting and executing people. As women, we have no hope for this corrupt parliament. We demand a democratic country that will make life possible for us. As the oppressed people in Iran, we will continue our struggle by chanting the ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ slogan. Women of Kermanshah will keep resisting.”