Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from travelling to accept EU’s Sakharov human rights prize

December 10, 2023

The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously, their lawyer said Saturday. Issued on: 09/12/2023 – 16:27 1 min Amini died aged 22 on September 16, 2022, while being held by Iran’s religious police for …

Mahsa Amini and Iran’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement win Sakharov human rights prize

October 19, 2023

Mahsa 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, was awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize on Thursday. Issued on: 19/10/2023 – 12:19 2 min The EU award, named for Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 …