Activist Narges Mohamadi calls out international “silence” two years after Mahsa Amini’s death

September 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iranian activist Narges Mohamadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2023, has stated that two years after the death in custody of the young Mahsa Amini, detained for wearing her veil incorrectly, women “are raising their voices louder” to demand rights, but she has asked for international support, so that “the UN ends its silence and inaction” by clearly penalizing “gender apartheid.”

“I call on international institutions and people around the world not only to observe, but to be active,” Mohamadi said in a public message in which she wanted to make clear that she sees the “liberation of women” as “essential” to guarantee peace and democracy in Iran.

The activist recalled from prison the “powerful” social movement that emerged after the Amini case and pointed out that, despite the fact that it has been “two difficult and agonizing years”, now “nothing is the same as before.” “A change that, although it has not overthrown the regime of the Islamic Republic, has shaken the foundations of religious tyranny,” she added.

The protests made the “disillusionment” of a large section of the population “visible”, in the words of Mohamadi, who reaffirmed the common commitment to continue working “to achieve democracy, freedom and equality and to overthrow theocratic tyranny.”

Mohamadi, 52, has spent most of the past two decades in prison, but she has not stopped her activism, which, among other things, calls for a boost to women’s rights and freedoms in Iran. Last year, she was unable to attend the Nobel Peace Prize in person.