Women, Life Freedom: Solidarity with Iranians*

11.12.2022
Press release
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The University Mozarteum declares its solidarity with the Iranians who are courageously protesting for self-determination and equal rights in their country. State despotism and violence are to be condemned in the strongest terms!

Artists like musicians Navid Afghan and Mahmood Mirzaye are in prison for joining the protesters. The Iranian people deserve a dignified life with equality and freedom of expression.

Freedom.

On my destroyed refuges On
my crumbling lighthouses
On the walls of my suffering
I write your name On the desireless trance
On the naked loneliness On the
steps of death
I write your name On the returned health
On the vanished danger On
the hope without memory I
write your name And by the power of a word
I begin my life anew I was born to know you
To call you.
Freedom.

Paul Éluard