Leading French Actresses Including Juliette Binoche And Isabelle Huppert Cut Hair In Protest Over Mahsa Amini’s Death
New
Age Islam News Bureau
06
October 2022
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Alaa Al-Hamad, A Saudi Woman Criminology Graduate Trains With US Police To
Tackle Perpetrators In The Country
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Schoolgirls Heckle Iran Paramilitary Speaker; Mahsa Amini Protest Spread To The
Classroom
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Saudi's SDAIA, Google Cloud To Launch Artificial Intelligence Training For
Women
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Islamic Headscarf Returns To Heart Of Turkish Political Debate
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Leading
French Actresses Including Juliette Binoche And Isabelle Huppert Cut Hair In
Protest Over Mahsa Amini’s Death
Actor Juliette Binoche arrives at the red carpet to
promote the movie 'Avec amour et acharnement' (Both Sides of the Blade) at the
72nd Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany, February 12,
2022. REUTERS/Christian Mang
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05
October, 2022
Leading
French actresses including Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert have cut locks
of hair in protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman who
died while in the custody of Iran’s morality police.
Amini,
22, was arrested on Sept. 13 in Tehran for “inappropriate attire” and died
three days later in hospital, sparking waves of protest in which over 130
people have died, according to rights groups.
The
morality police enforce the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
“For
Freedom,” said Binoche as she snipped off a huge handful of her auburn hair and
held it up to the camera.
Binoche
was joined by other French A-list actresses and singers including Marion
Cotillard and Isabelle Adjani in cutting their hair, with a Farsi rendition of
Italian protest song “Bella ciao” behind the video montage.
“Mahsa
Amini was abused by the morality police until death followed. All she stood
accused of was wearing her veil in an inappropriate manner. She died for having
a few locks of her hair exposed,” read a text on the Instagram video posted by
soutienfemmesiran (Support for Women of Iran).
The
post has been widely relayed on other social media, including Facebook and
Twitter.
Iran’s
clerical rulers have been grappling with the biggest nationwide unrest in years
since Amini’s death and protests have spread abroad including London, Paris,
Rome and Madrid in solidarity with Iranian demonstrators.
“Iranian
women expect support from the international community. This is a beautiful way
to show that support,” French lawyer Richard Sedillot, who initiated the action,
told Reuters.
“This
is only a first step, I hope that everybody in the world will follow, not only
actresses but everyone. Men could also cut their hair, I think it will happen.”
Lawyers,
media personalities and other women in France have followed suit.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Alaa
Al-Hamad, A Saudi Woman Criminology Graduate Trains With US Police To Tackle
Perpetrators In The Country
Alaa
Al-Hamad spent a year with Indiana State police. (Supplied)
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Tareq
Al-Thaqafi
October
06, 2022
MAKKAH:
A Saudi criminology graduate who spent a year training with the Indiana State
Police in the US plans to use her expertise to tackle perpetrators in the
country.
Alaa
Al-Hamad said her alma mater, Indiana University, nominated her to undergo
training with the state’s police department, after fulfilling criteria which
included having no criminal record and excelling academically.
During
her stint with the Indiana State Police, Al-Hamad dealt with a wide range of
criminal activities including murder and theft. She also worked on a high
number of suicide cases. She learned to shoot guns and handle German Shepherd
dogs in the department’s K9 unit.
Speaking
to Arab News, Al-Hamad said that the “experience was enriching” as she would
accompany the police following 911 calls and conduct investigations.
Al-Hamad
received a scholarship to study computer engineering at Indiana University
after completing high school in 2017.
However,
she did not enjoy computer engineering, and later “decided to major in criminal
justice following the advice of one of her teachers.”
She
said it was her ability to “analyze and reach conclusions” that led to her
changing course in her studies. She graduated with distinction from the
institution.
Al-Hamad
has also authored a book titled “Another Kind of Crime” in which she writes
about a variety of offenses, including those involving “emotional” abuse.
She
said emotional crimes “are deeper” than physical ones, having long-lasting
effects on victims, with perpetrators often causing harm unwittingly.
Al-Hamad
urged Saudi women to take up studies in the field because there was a great
need for committed and educated individuals to work in the criminal justice
system.
She
said crimes related to drug abuse was a scourge in society, and added that
awareness programs should be launched at schools and universities to highlight
the “devastating negative effects” it has on society, families and individuals.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2176001/saudi-arabia
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Schoolgirls
Heckle Iran Paramilitary Speaker; Mahsa Amini Protest Spread To The Classroom
October
05, 2022
TEHRAN
— A new video posted online appears to show schoolgirls heckling a member of
Iran's feared paramilitary Basij force, after anti-government protests sweeping
the country spread to the classroom.
The
teenagers are seen waving their headscarves in the air and shouting "get
lost, Basiji" at the man, who had reportedly been asked to speak to them.
The
Basij's volunteers have helped authorities crack down on the protests.
The
protests erupted after the death of a woman detained for breaking the hijab
law.
Other
footage circulated on social media seems to show an elderly woman clapping as
unveiled schoolgirls, also dressed in black uniforms, chant "freedom,
freedom, freedom" at a protest on a street.
In
a third video, reportedly filmed in the city of Karaj, schoolgirls are seen
screaming and running from a man, thought to be a member of the security forces
in plainclothes, who is driving a motorcycle along a pavement.
The
unrest was triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who fell
into a coma hours after being detained by morality police on 13 September in
Tehran. She had allegedly failed to cover her hair sufficiently. She died in
hospital three days later.
Her
family has alleged that officers beat her head with a baton and banged her head
against one of their vehicles. The police have denied that she was mistreated
and said she suffered a heart attack.
The
first protests took place in north-western Iran, where Ms Amini was from, and
then spread rapidly across the country.
Young
women have been at the forefront of the unrest, but it was not until Monday
that schoolgirls began participating publicly in large numbers.
It
came a day after security forces briefly besieged the prestigious Sharif
University of Technology in Tehran in response to a protest on the campus.
Dozens of students were reportedly beaten, blindfolded and taken away.
Monday
also saw the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, break his silence on the
unrest and accuse the US and Israel, Iran's arch-enemies, of orchestrating
"riots". He also gave his full backing to the security forces, which
have been accused by human rights groups of killing dozens of people.
On
Tuesday, there were reports that the death toll resulting from clashes between
security personnel and anti-government protesters in the south-eastern city of
Zahedan had risen to 83.
Zahedan
is the capital of Sistan Baluchistan province, which borders both Pakistan and
Afghanistan, and has a sizeable Sunni Muslim population.
Authorities
have said the security forces were attacked by armed Baluchi separatists -
something the imam of the city's biggest mosque has denied.
The
violence erupted on Friday, when protesters surrounded a police station and
officers opened fire.
Tensions
in the city had been compounded by the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a
police chief elsewhere in Sistan Baluchistan. — BBC
Source:
Saudi Gazette
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/625733
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Saudi's
SDAIA, Google Cloud To Launch Artificial Intelligence Training For Women
October
6, 2022
TECHNOLOGYEDUCATIONSAUDI
ARABIAARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Saudi
Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAIA) has partnered with
American tech firm Google to launch a global program that will look to reduce
the gender gap in the technological sector, especially in artificial
intelligence (AI).
SDAIA
announced the new initiative named 'Elevate', in association with Google Cloud,
during the second Global AI Summit in Riyadh last month.
Elevate
is a global program which aims to use AI to reduce the gender gap by empowering
more than 25,000 women globally in the next five years. The program will
provide free accessible training to women in tech and science, empowering them
and pursuing the growing number of job opportunities in the field of data and
artificial intelligence.
The
program has two tracks: the technical track for data engineer, cloud architect,
Ml engineer and data scientist, accounting for 30 per cent of the program
trainees. The non-technical track for Cloud Business Enthusiast will make 70
per cent of the program trainees.
Speaking
at the event virtually, Princess Haifa Bint Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, Saudi
Arabia's permanent representative to the UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, said women are underrepresented in the field of AI and
technology.
"At
the moment, when digital technologies are reshaping everyday life, we cannot
deny that women are underrepresented in AI and STEM fields in general. Women
only represent 3 percent of Nobel prize laureates in science and only 12 per
cent of artificial Intelligence researchers globally," said Princess
Al-Muqrin.
She
said this inequality is depriving the world of enormous untapped talent,
insisting that women's involvement and perspectives are needed in the
technology sector to make it work for everyone.
Source:
Zawya
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Islamic
headscarf returns to heart of Turkish political debate
By
Nevzat Devranoglu and Daren Butler
October
5, 2022
ANKARA,
Oct 5 (Reuters) - Turkey's government and opposition both vowed legal steps to
enshrine women's right to wear Islamic headscarves on Wednesday, restoring to
the heart of political debate ahead of next year's elections an issue which
once caused deep divisions.
The
proposals came as President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party and the opposition
pushed policy ideas before presidential and parliamentary elections next year
with an eye on opinion polls which suggest the outcome is still in the balance.
The
headscarf issue was for years a focus of fierce discord in Muslim but secular
Turkey but ceased to be so after reforms pushed through by Erdogan's
Islamist-rooted AK Party (AKP) during its two decades in power.
But
main opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu unexpectedly revived the issue this
week, announcing the planned legislation amid efforts by his secularist CHP
party to reach out to devout Turks, among which the CHP has traditionally had
little support.
Erdogan
frequently targets the CHP over its past opposition to broadening headscarf
freedoms and spoke at length on the issue in a speech to AKP deputies in
parliament on Wednesday.
"Come
and let's solve this, not just as a law but at the constitutional level,"
Erdogan said in response to the CHP, while insisting the issue had been
resolved under his rule.
He
did not elaborate but appeared to be suggesting enshrining in the constitution
the right of women to wear the headscarf.
ELECTIONS
LOOM
The
moves come after recent polls put Kilicdaroglu, the likely opposition
presidential candidate, ahead of Erdogan. A recent poll by the closely-watched
Metropoll however showed the ruling alliance five points ahead of a main
opposition alliance.
Kilicdaroglu
gave a cautious welcome to Erdogan's proposal on Wednesday, saying: "If
there is no cunning agenda behind it, of course, we are ready to give all kinds
of support to your proposal on rights and freedoms."
Turkey's
parliament lifted a ban on female students wearing the headscarf at university
in 2008 in a move championed by Erdogan and which CHP lawmakers including
Kilicdaroglu had sought unsuccessfully to block in the constitutional court.
The
then-powerful secular establishment, including army generals, judges and
university rectors, saw the headscarf as a symbol of radical Islam and a threat
to the secular order.
In
2013, Turkey lifted a ban on women wearing headscarves in state institutions
under reforms which the government said were designed to bolster democracy.
Source:
Reuters
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