“Women, life, freedom!”, The code of demonstrations in Iran, has been widely chanted.
Le Monde with AFP
Several thousand people paraded in Paris on Sunday October 2 to condemn the repression in Iran of demonstrations triggered by the death of the young Mahsa Amini, arrested by the moral police.
Like their fellow men in Los Angeles and Toronto, also the Iranian Diaspora, the activists paraded from the Place de la République in place of the Nation, traditional course of the great Parisian movements.
The demonstrators chanted the slogans “join the first feminist revolution!” And “Mahsa Amini, your name made the tyranny of the Ayatollahs” tremble, despite some intense showers. “Death to the Islamic Republic”, “Death to the dictator” and “Woman. Life. Liberty”, the Code of demonstrations in Iran, were also heard.
At least 92 people were killed in Iran by the repression of the demonstrations that broke out two weeks ago after the death of Mahsa Amini, arrested by moral police, according to the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR).
Antigovernmental demonstrations continue
President Ebrahim Raïssi again accused Iran’s “enemies” of “conspiring” against his country, believing that their attempts had “failed” while antigenal demonstrations, the most important since 2019, continue. The protest movement was launched by the death on September 16 of the 22 -year -old Iranian Kurdish, three days after her arrest for offense to the country’s dress code which forces women to wear the veil.
Left personalities including the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, the environmental member Sandrine Rousseau and the MEP LFI (Radical Left) Manon Aubry spoke, covered by whistles from a diaspora Iranian known for its political diversity.
The demonstrators also protested when the recent meeting was mentioned in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, between French President Emmanuel Macron and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raïssi. “The French government flirts with the mullahs while the mullahs kill women,” denounced a slogan next to a photo of the two men shaking hands.