Iran Protests and Climbing in Iran

Since the 16th of September 2022, the streets in many cities of Iran are full of people, protesting against their regime, because a woman was killed for not wearing her Hijab properly. A climber from Iran brought these protests closer to many of us: Elnaz Rekabi. At the Asian Continental Championships she climbed without a Hijab. Something like that has not happened in 43 years: A female climber from Iran shows herself at an international competition without the Hijab. 43 years ago, the current leaders of Iran took over the power and established a regime that forces strict religious rules upon anyone in the country. Rules, that say, that a man and a woman can’t climb together, for example. Breaking these rules can have severe consequences for people in Iran. They could be beaten up, imprisoned, tortured, raped or killed. All of this has not started in the last weeks, it has been going on for years. I reached out to some climbers from Iran, who now live outside of Iran and we talked for this episode. I thank them all for speaking and giving us insights to understand their situation! Thank you to Düzen Tekkal for helping me with some questions and for her amazing work to report about Iran! - Please sign the Iran-Petition of her organization Hawar! (The link is in the shownotes) Thank you also to Liam Lonsdale, for giving ideas and connections that helped me prepare this episode! And thank you to climbing photographer Vladek Zumr for letting me use his pictures of Elnaz Rekabi! +++ Shownotes +++ Petition von Hawar: Für eine Wende in der deutschen Iran-Politik https://www.hawar.help/de/bundestags-petition/ Magst du mich bei meiner Podcast-Arbeit unterstützen? Damit ich meine Arbeit machen kann gibt es auf der Plattform Steady ein Crowdfunding: https://steadyhq.com/de/binwegbouldern Oder hol dir ein BIN WEG BOULDERN Shirt / Hoodies uvm.: https://binwegbouldern.de/bwb_shop#!/

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