Why Is Iran Parading Pink Weapons? To Coerce Women Into Militancy, Says Rights Expert

Speaking with RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, Mansoureh Shojaee, an Iranian women’s rights activist based in the Netherlands, says the regime is coercing women into “revenge-driven” militancy amid war with the United States and Israel. In videos shown by pro-government media outlets, crowds of Iranian women were filmed holding guns, flags, and children at the recent rally…

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Akinola Davies Jr. Praises Brazilians Ahead of Special Salvador Event

When explaining why they chose British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. as the international guest of honor at this year’s Projeto Paradiso National Talent Network gathering in Recife, the initiative’s executive director Josephine Bourgois said it was because Davies Jr’s “My Father’s Shadows” is a film that “could have been made by a Brazilian filmmaker.” This…

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