With this award, the European Parliament symbolically pays homage to the young Kurdish Mahsa Amini. She died in 2022 after being arrested by the Iranian moral police.
This year, the EU’s most prestigious human rights award goes to the Iranian women’s movement and the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, who is being honored posthumously more than a year after her death in Iran. The European Parliament announced this on Thursday. The three largest political groups in the European Parliament had already nominated her for the Sakharov Prize, named after Russian dissident Andrei Sakharov.
The Iranian women’s movement is being honored with Amini, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Thursday in Strasbourg. “Women. Life. Freedom”, repeated Metsola on the online service X, formerly Twitter, the slogan of the mass protests in Iran that erupted after Amini’s death. arrested by the Iranian morality police for a headscarf that was allegedly worn too loosely. Her death triggered an unprecedented protest movement. (APA)