Iran, withdrawing passports from the family of Mahsa Amini. They were going to Strasbourg to receive the Sakharov Prize – Corriere.it

Mojgan Eftekhari, Amjad Amini and Ashkan Amini, OsiMahsa Amini’s mother, father, and brother were at Tehran airport when the authorities stopped them and confiscated their passports. The guards prevented the family of the 22-year-old Kurdish man who was killed by the regime in September 2022 from leaving the country to go to… Strasbourg and receive the Sakharov Prize Granted by the European Parliament. An award in honor of Al-Mahsa, who became a symbol of the Women’s Life and Freedom movement.

“Their passports have been confiscated,” the family’s lawyer in France, Shirin Ardakani, told AFP. The first reaction was that of the president Roberta Mitsola“I call on the Iranian regime to rescind its decision to prevent Amini’s family from traveling. Their place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg next Tuesday, alongside brave Iranian women. The truth cannot be tolerated.” The activist Masih Alinejad He wrote on social media: “This behavior by the regime confirms its fear of international recognition of our movement.”

We ask activists: How could the Amini family, under the dictatorship’s special watch, think they would be allowed to leave? The answer they give us is always the same: they probably tried and were expecting to be stopped. They had a The “dissident” gesture. To draw media attention to the Iranian situation again.

The halt to Amini’s departure coincides with two pieces of news from Tehran. The first concerns the activist Narges Mohammadi And starting Sunday, the day his family will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, he will begin a new hunger strike “in solidarity with the Baha’i religious minority.” The second is that the United Nations confirmed the presence of the president Main to Refugee Forum United Nations in Geneva from 13 to 15 December. As activists write on social media: “But whose side do international institutions stand?”