Macron commemorates Mahsa Amini as a "martyr" for Human Rights and a "symbol" against repression

MADRID, 29 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, this Sunday remembered the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of the Iranian authorities in September last year for allegedly wearing the Islamic veil poorly, as a "martyr" and a " symbol" of Human Rights after the outbreak of massive protests against his death, both in Iran and abroad.

"Mahsa Amini, murdered as a martyr, has become a symbol for all of us today and her fight forces us to take responsibility and action," Macron said in a video posted this Sunday on his Twitter account on the occasion of the call Marianne Initiative, the program launched by the French Government to enhance the work of humanitarian defenders.

"Repressions in the four corners of the world," Macron warned, "are on the rise, and many times their first victims are women and girls."

The NGOs Iran Human Rights and Hrana have denounced this weekend that between 488 and 527 people have died during the repression of the protests over the death of the young woman. Iran Human Rights denounces in particular that among those killed there are 64 minors and 39 women, and that at least 107 protesters are currently at risk of execution, death penalty charges or sentences.

The Iranian authorities have exempted the security forces from all blame for the death of Amini, who according to their version died of a previous pathology, although they have acknowledged certain excesses during the repression of some demonstrations that they have attributed, above all, to the action of "troublemakers" in the pay of foreign powers.