🇪🇺 2023 Sakharov Prize: Jina Mahsa Amini & Woman, Life & Freedom Movement in Iran 🇪🇺

Each year Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. Jina Mahsa Amini and the Woman, Life and Freedom Movement in Iran were nominated by the European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats and Renew Europe this year as a nominees for the 2023 Sakharov Prize. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman was visiting Tehran in September 2022, when she was arrested and beaten by the so-called moral police for wearing the hijab the “wrong” way. Her death a few days later sparked massive protests in Iran, with women at the forefront. Under the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom”, they have been protesting against the hijab law and other discriminatory laws. The footage (or part) are ©AFP. The material is offered for the purpose of providing information and/or education on Sakharov Prize 2023.

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