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Pedal power inspires Iraqi women

By Agence France-Presse in Baghdad | China Daily | Updated: 2017-02-11 07:15

Baghdad bike brigade helping participants rediscover rights

Her name is Marina Jaber but to many she is "the girl on the bike", a young Baghdad artist inspiring Iraqi women to exercise their rights one pedal at a time.

In Iraq's conservative society, the young woman cuts an unusual figure when she rides her red bicycle in the streets of the capital, her long black hair swaying in the wind.

Pedal power inspires Iraqi women

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