Iran Protests: Tales from the frontline
Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets?\nAfter protests turned violent and hundreds of people were killed, four Iranians tell the story of why they risked their lives. What has been happening in Iran to drive them out onto the streets to face bullets?\n\u2018Agrin\u2019 tells Phoebe Keane she\u2019s tired of being objectified as a woman, and having no faith that the authorities will take sexual assault seriously when the police themselves are accused of raping prisoners.\nMahsoud tells how he was shot during a protest but feared going to the hospital in case the authorities put him in jail. When plain clothed police loitered outside his family home, he decided to leave Iran. Still bleeding and with a metal pellet lodged in his ear impairing his hearing, he finally made it across the border to Iraq.\n\u2018Nazy\u2019 tells of being arrested by the morality police while walking to work and being shoved in a van as the heels on her shoes were too high. She started to protest every day and now walks through the streets with her hair blowing in the wind, an act of defiance.\n\u2018Farah\u2019 remembers a time in Iran when women could dance and sing in public and protests because she wants her daughter to live a life without fear.
Presenter: Phoebe Keane\nProducers: Ed Butler, Ali Hamedani, Khosro Isfahani and Taraneh Stone\nSeries editor: Penny Murphy