Trash-Talking: Collecting Garbage Isn't A Crime In Tehran. Or Is It?
Mohammad Maleki, wearing a shawl that says "Collecting Garbage," flashes the victory sign along a roadway outside the capital, where he and a colleague were dumped by security agents./ Left with few options to legally highlight state repression in Iran, former Tehran University chancellor Mohammad Maleki and former hard-line columnist Mohammad Nurizad settled on a seemingly innocuous form of public protest -- collecting garbage from the streets of Tehran. “[Collecting garbage] isn’t a crime," Nurizad wrote on Facebook on January 26. "Or is ...
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