Pegah Banihashemi
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Pegah Banihashemi: 4 years after Mahsa Amini’s death, Iranian women have changed. The Islamic Republic hasn’t. (opens the original)
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Four years ago this week, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Jina Amini died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s compulsory hijab rules. She was a young Kurdish woman from Saqqez in western Iran, a region that has long suffered from economic deprivation and political marginalization. Yet within days, her name transcended geography, ethnicity and even Iran itself. It became the symbol of a movement whose defining words — Woman, Life, Freedom — would b
Pegah Banihashemi: After decades of sanctions on Iran, who has actually paid the price? (opens the original)
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On Monday, the United States opened another chapter in its decadeslong campaign of economic pressure against Iran. The Treasury Department launched Operation Economic Outcast, describing it as an unprecedented economic campaign aimed at further isolating the Islamic Republic and those who enable it. The objective sounds straightforward: Deprive Tehran of money, and it will have less to spend on missiles, military operations and armed groups across the Middle East. But this follows decades of san
Pegah Banihashemi: What Chicago’s Pride Parade revealed about the rule of law (opens the original)
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On June 28, the 55th annual Chicago Pride Parade stepped off from Grace Street and Broadway under this year’s theme, “Free to Be Proud.” Leading the procession as one of the parade’s community grand marshals was the Alliance of Illinois Judges, the state’s association of LGBTQ+ judges. I marched as a judicial extern with the Cook County Circuit Court, walking alongside judges from courtrooms across Illinois. Openly LGBTQ+ judges walked shoulder to shoulder with colleagues who are allies. It was
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