Kurdish-Iranian Woman Who Died in Police Custody Awarded EU Human Rights Prize

The European Union has honored a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman with its highest human rights award after her death in Iran last year triggered global demonstrations against Islamic attire regulations for women in public imposed by the nation’s conservative Islamic theocracy. The woman, Mahsa Amini, was awarded the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on […]

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