Some 80,000 people marched on Saturday October 22 in Berlin to support the protests in Iran.
Among the participants in this demonstration organized by a group of women, some waved posters with the slogan "
Women, Life, Freedom
" (Women, Life, Peace in French), others Kurdish flags.
The demonstrators criticized the Islamic dictatorship in Iran.
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Many had portraits of Mahsa Amini, who died for not wearing her Islamic veil properly.
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In bright sunshine, protesters marched peacefully through the heart of the city, police said who counted the demonstrators from a helicopter.
German Family Minister, environmentalist Lisa Paus has affirmed her support for Berliners on the streets.
“
We are on your side
,” she said on Twitter.
Thousands of people gathered in Berlin to pay tribute to Mahsa Amini.
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A huge flag of Iran was unfurled above the demonstrators.
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For more than a month, large-scale protests have been taking place in Iran, sparked by the death of the young Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini after her arrest.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of breaking the Islamic Republic's strict dress code, where the veil is compulsory for all women in public spaces .
The demonstrators chanted messages of freedom.
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The Iranian government was at the heart of the criticism.
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The crackdown on protests, the largest in Iran since those in 2019 against rising fuel prices, has left at least 122 people dead, including children, according to Oslo-based Iran Human Rights (IHR).