At the foot of the Kurdish mountains, a human chain as far as the eye can see.
Forty days after the death of Mahsa Amini, the image is historic: that of a population, united by anger and hope, who brave the police checkpoints to pay homage to this young Iranian woman of 22, murdered by the morality police for a
"badly worn"
scarf whose death set the country on fire.
This Wednesday, October 26, thousands - men and women alike - converged on foot along the roads, sometimes across fields, towards his tomb in Saqqez, his hometown, in the northwest of the country.
The authorities had worked hard to prevent any form of gathering on this fortieth day of mourning, commemorative in Muslim tradition.
Blocking of access to the cemetery, reinforced control at the entrance to Saqqez, closure of schools and universities in Kurdistan for
a “flu wave”,
death threats against the brother of the deceased… Nothing helped.
“Freedom, freedom, freedom!”
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