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A group of protesters have applauded several women who have torn handkerchiefs this Thursday in front of the Iranian Embassy in Madrid at a rally called by Amnesty International to

protest the death of the young Kurdish-Iranian

Mahsa Amini

.

Scissors in hand, the protesters

have torn colored fabrics

while the Persian version of

Bella Ciao

was played , a song that has gained prominence in recent weeks after the social outbreak that has caused the death of Amini in Iran, the 22-year-old girl who She died in a police station after being arrested by the Moral Police for wearing the veil wrong.

The spokeswoman for

Amnesty International

, Yolanda Vega, has expressed in statements to Europa Press that there is

"enormous impunity"

with respect to police repression in the country and that the avenues of justice to demand accountability "is not that they have been exhausted, they don't exist".

"What we are asking the Spanish Government is what we are asking all the governments that are now in the Human Rights Council and that is to support, within the United Nations, the creation of an independent mechanism that is international, and that

guarantees the investigation and accountability of what is happening in

Iran

," he said.

Vega has also pointed out that "within Iran the conditions to obtain justice and reparation are not going to exist."

"Women are subjected to constant discrimination in law and in practice," she said, adding that this "goes into matters as personal as marriage, divorce, employment or clothing."

"These are laws that have been imposed on them and that are discriminatory.

They violate women's right to equality, the right to freedom of expression and religious freedom,

" she said, adding that they can be subjected to torture, punishment and sent to prison.

Thus, he has given the example of the human rights lawyer

Nasrín Sotudé

, who was sentenced in March 2019 to a sentence of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for "crimes against national security.

" The objective of all these laws is to silence women, but the effect is the opposite"

, he highlighted.

For Vega, this can be seen in "the number of women who are taking to the streets and who are being retaliated against."

"We are seeing how there are women that the Police tie very tightly by the chest or pull them by the hair and drag them", she indicated, adding that the situation "is very hard", although "there is an increasing awareness" .

During the demonstration, a woman has denounced mistreatment and violence against her niece in the Asian country.

"She was also one of the victims today

," said Mali, a 34-year-old woman who studies in Spain and who, visibly moved, has cut her hair in front of the crowd.

"I am here because I am not afraid. The next one could be my family. We are also going to return," he stressed with tears in his eyes, assuring that he

fears for his three sisters who go out to protest in the streets in Iran

and from the who often has no news due to the constant internet outages in the country.

Mali has also remembered

Nika Shakarami

, a 16-year-old girl who disappeared on September 20 as part of the protests and whose body was found in a morgue in the capital, Tehran, with blows to the neck.

Waving handkerchiefs, the group of protesters, chanting

"Women, life and freedom"

, applauded Iranian human rights activist Nilufar Saberi for more than a minute, who read a manifesto to honor Amini's death.

"We come to demand from the Iranian authorities: that the bloody repression against protesters cease once and for all. That they repeal the discriminatory laws against women. That they eliminate the Moral Police.

That there be justice for the victims

", he has asked .

The death of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman after being arrested for wearing the Islamic veil wrongly has caused a wave of indignation both in a part of Iranian society, and more unanimously internationally.

There have been numerous demonstrations in various cities in Iran, including Tehran, in which numerous women have thrown off their veils and cut their hair in protest.

For their part, the authorities have virulently repressed these gatherings,

leaving at least 154 dead

, according to the latest counts by the non-governmental organization

Iran Human Rights

(IHR).

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