Continued…

The courageous journalist who first interviewed Sepideh’s family and lawyer and created news coverage for Sepideh was none other than Niloofar Hamedi, who, with exemplary courage two months later, through her reporting on what happened to Mahsa Amini, did not allow the injustice inflicted upon her to remain hidden from public view. She and Elaheh Mohammadi are described here as journalists who had spent more than a year in detention without a final court outcome, imprisoned for the integrity of their journalism.

Today, after seeing a photograph Sepideh had shared, I remembered a text she had written some time earlier, a text in which the light of consciousness can be seen shining from every line:

A person who fights is afraid.
Silence, seeing their humiliation every day, the loss of freedom and dignity—
these frighten them more than anything else.
A person who fights thinks about victory.
They know that their words, their actions, their wounds,
their captivity and even their death are themselves victory.

A person who fights does not abandon life.
It is impossible to fight for life and abandon life.
A person who fights resists.
Sometimes taking cover is more important than exposing one’s chest.
A person who fights is yesterday’s child.
They know that if they themselves do not taste freedom, today’s children will.
A person who fights knows that revolutions take time, but they do not fail.

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