September 20, 2024
Shady Alizadeh, a lawyer and Italian-Iranian activist from the “Woman, Life, Freedom for Peace and Justice” movement, spoke to «L’Osservatore Romano» about prisons in the Islamic Republic of Iran on the sidelines of demonstrations in memory of Mahsa Jina Amini, the twenty-two-year-old of Kurdish origin who died on 16 September 2022 while in the custody of the Tehran police, who had arrested her three days earlier on charges of not having worn the Islamic veil correctly. At the press conference organized by Amnesty International Italy, this week in Rome, at the National Federation of the Italian Press, Alizadeh remembered Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammadi, detained in the Iranian capital since November 2021: her fight «against the oppression of women in Iran and for the promotion of human rights and …
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