'Every moment in darkness is a mortal threat to another young woman.' Computational geneticist Dr. Pardis Sabeti dedicates her TIME100 Impact Award to Mahsa Amini and the protesters in Iran
, the 22-year-old Iranian woman whose death in police custody last month sparked a wave of protests in the country against the Iranian regime.
Amini was detained by Iranian morality police for not wearing a hijab properly and died on Sept. 16 after reportedly suffering blows to the head. Since her death, dozens of demonstrators have been killed and many more arrested in Iran’s largest protests in almost three years. Sabeti said that support for vulnerable people and those struggling against oppressive regimes is crucial to growing the kind of global solidarity needed to mitigate the harms of any future pandemic. “You see, viruses, they expose and they exploit the cracks in our society: the lack of justice, transparency, and equity,” she said.
Sabeti ended her speech with a dedication to Amini and other Iranian women who have lost their lives under the regime. “To Mahsa Jina, Neda [
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