Twenty-two-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman died after being arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory headscarf law
A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran in Washington in 2022. Photograph: Cliff Owen/APMahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union top human rights prize.
European Parliament president Roberta Metsola said that day would “live in infamy”, adding that Ms Amini’s “brutal murder” had marked a turning point. “The world has heard the chants of ‘women, life, liberty’, three words that have become a rallying cry for all those standing up for equality, for dignity and for freedom in Iran,” Ms Metsola said.While authorities said she had suffered a heart attack, her supporters said she had been beaten by police and had died as a result of her injuries.
Her death triggered protests which spread across the country and rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s four-decade-old Islamic theocracy.
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