NOTE: Before answering the following questions, read the “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources” below.

1. List the who, what, where and when of the news item.

2. What was the purpose of Amnesty International’s ‘protest’?

3. What did Yasaman Aryani, her mother Monireh Arabshahi and Mojgan Keshavarz do on International Women’s Day in 2019?

4. a) What prison sentence did each woman receive?
b) For what reason(s) were the women imprisoned by the Islamic government?

5. What 2-3 adjectives would you use to describe these three women, and the many others in Iran who risk such punishment?

6. In Western countries, some feminists fight for a woman’s “right” to be covered. What do you think women living under repressive regimes would tell/ask women living in democratic countries to do for them and their rights?

7. It was difficult to find any photos/video of the Paris protest - or about the 3 women. Why do you think this wasn’t a bigger news story?