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EU awards Mahsa Amini rights prize as Iran blocks family
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The European Parliament on Tuesday presented a top EU rights prize to Mahsa Amini, whose death in Iranian custody sparked mass protests, but her family was blocked by Tehran from attending.
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Iran blocks Mahsa Amini's family from collecting a human rights prize in her name
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EU awards Mahsa Amini rights prize as Iran blocks family
Amini's family was attempting to board a flight to France to collect the prize, but authorities told them that they aren't allowed to leave Iran. Their passports were also confiscated.
Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to accept the European Union’s top human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini’s death while in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic.
Authorities said that only the family's lawyer would be allowed to travel to Strasbourg to receive the award for Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police last year.
The European Parliament on Tuesday presented a top EU rights prize to Mahsa Amini, whose death in Iranian custody sparked mass protests, but her family was blocked by Tehran from attending.
The European Parliament has given the EU's Sakharov Prize to the late Iranian protest figure Jina Mahsa Amini and a freedom movement associated with her. Tehran blocked Amini's family from attending.
