The authorities seem very much focused on trying to stop protest. It's already striking that women are walking around the streets as if the mandatory veil had gone. People are going out in the streets and dressing as they want, and police are probably too preoccupied, at least for the time being, to stop them. The president has given orders to his security forces to use what means they have to suppress the demonstrations.
Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the
unrest has come to be about far more than the heavy hands of the morality police. The murder of Abe Shinzo, a former Japanese prime minister,
exposed troubling government links to a cult-like sect; the fallout could unseat his successor. And using flying robots as
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