Sefsani said she is organizing another protest in solidarity with Iranian women, which will take place later this month. “Even though our first action only involved a few people, we felt like we’re already doing something and I hope we’ll inspire other people to do the same.” “The world must step in, there must be global action to stop the violence in Iran,” she added. “We want to call attention (to the fact) that what happened in Iran is an international issue, an issue for every nation, and in the name of humanity there must be solidarity,” Ririn Sefsani, a women’s rights activist based in Jakarta and one of the solidarity protest organizers, told Arab News. Several Indonesian activists organized a small protest in front of the Iranian embassy in Jakarta earlier this month, where they symbolically laid flowers at the gate and held placards that read “Solidarity for Mahsa Amini.”
Protests and public anger in Iran have swollen since mid-September, spreading to as many as 80 cities, following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old who was arrested by Iran’s morality police on accusations of failing to properly cover her hair.Īt the forefront of the weeks-long uprising are Iranian women, who have cast off their legally required head scarves and cut their hair in acts of defiance, sparking a global show of solidarity in support of the demonstrations. JAKARTA: Indonesian activists say they are acting in the interests of humanity by joining the chorus of global solidarity with the Iranian women at the helm of the largest anti-government protests in Iran since 2009. Last March, Taiwan grounded all military aircraft after a pilot was killed and another went missing when their fighters collided mid-air in the third fatal crash in less than six months. It is not the first deadly crash this year - in January one of Taiwan’s most advanced fighter jets, an F-16V, plunged into the sea. On Tuesday local media reported that a pilot had died after crashing a trainer jet in southern Kaohsiung. The sheer number of sorties has put the air force under immense pressure, and it has suffered a string of fatal accidents in recent years. So far in 2022 Taiwan has reported 465 incursions, a near 50 percent increase on the same period last year. That month saw a record 196 incursions, mostly around China’s annual national day celebrations. The most number of aircraft China has sent in a single day was 56 on October 4, 2021. Last year, Taiwan recorded 969 incursions by Chinese warplanes into its ADIZ, according to an AFP database - more than double the roughly 380 carried out in 2020. The ADIZ is not the same as Taiwan’s territorial airspace but includes a far greater area that overlaps with part of China’s own air defense identification zone and even includes some of the mainland.Ī flight map provided by the Taiwanese defense ministry showed the planes entering the southwestern corner of the ADIZ before looping back out again. Monday’s incursion was the largest since January 23, when 39 planes entered the air defense identification zone, or ADIZ. The United States last week accused Beijing of raising tensions over the island, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken specifically mentioning aircraft incursions as an example of “increasingly provocative rhetoric and activity.”īlinken’s remarks came after US President Joe Biden appeared to break decades of US policy when in response to a question on a visit to Japan he said Washington would defend Taiwan militarily if it is attacked by China.īut the White House has since insisted its policy of “strategic ambiguity” over whether or not it would intervene has not changed. Self-ruled democratic Taiwan lives under the constant threat of invasion by China, which views the island as its territory and has vowed to one day seize it, by force if necessary. In recent years, Beijing has begun sending large sorties into Taiwan’s defense zone to signal dissatisfaction, and to keep Taipei’s aging fighter fleet regularly stressed.
Taiwan’s defense ministry said late Monday it had scrambled its own aircraft and deployed air defense missile systems to monitor the latest Chinese activity. TAIPEI: China has made the second largest incursion into Taiwan’s air defense zone this year with Taipei reporting 30 jets entering the area, including more than 20 fighters.
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