2023-10-19 10:26:05
With this award, the European Parliament symbolically honors the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. She died in 2022 following being arrested by the Iranian moral police.
This year, the most prestigious EU human rights prize goes to the Iranian women’s movement and the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who is being honored posthumously more than a year following her death in Iran. The European Parliament announced this on Thursday. The three largest political groups in the European Parliament had previously nominated her for the Sakharov Prize, named following the Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov.
The Iranian women’s movement is being honored with Amini, said EU Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday in Strasbourg. “Women. Life. Freedom,” Metsola repeated on the online service X, formerly Twitter, the slogan of the mass protests in Iran that broke out following Amini’s death. The 22-year-old Amini died on September 16, 2022 following being arrested by the Iranian moral police because of a headscarf that was allegedly worn too loosely. Her death sparked an unprecedented protest movement. (APA)
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