2023-12-10 18:50:59
By Delphine Minoui
Published 4 minutes ago, Updated 4 minutes ago
A woman holds up a portrait of Jina Mahsa Amini during a demonstration on September 20, 2022, in Istanbul. OZAN KOSE/AFP
DECRYPTION – The Sakharov Prize will be awarded to their daughter on Wednesday, while the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Narjes Mohammadi on Sunday.
Correspondent in Istanbul
After mourning, the law of silence. The parents and brother of Jina Mahsa Amini, who were to receive the Sakharov Prize awarded to the young woman posthumously this Wednesday, December 13, in Strasbourg, were prohibited from leaving Iranian territory. “They are trying to silence us”, deplores by telephone the father of the Iranian woman of Kurdish origin, whose death, on September 16, 2022 after a police arrest for a poorly worn scarf, triggered the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. At the end of the line, Amjad Amini’s voice resonates with sadness and incomprehension: “As soon as we arrived at Tehran international airport, this Friday, December 8, around 11:30 p.m., we had our papers confiscated for no reason at passport control. When we went to collect them the next day at the designated office, they explained to us that at the request of the Ministry of Intelligence, our family was prohibited from leaving the country. Yet no complaints were filed against us!…
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