In Syrian north, girls protest over loss of life of Iran’s Amini By Reuters

QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) – Tons of of ladies protested in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria on Monday over the loss of life of an Iranian Kurdish girl within the custody of Iran’s morality police, with some reducing their hair and burning headscarves in an echo of demonstrations in Iran.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died earlier this month after being arrested in Tehran by police imposing the Islamic Republic’s strict restrictions on girls’s gown. Her loss of life has touched off Iran’s largest unrest since 2019.

Protesters held aloft footage of Amini as they marched by way of a avenue within the northeastern Syrian metropolis of Qamishli.

“She was subjected to brutal therapy by the Iranian tyrants. We do not settle for this insult to any girl in society,” stated Sawsan Hussein, 52, an worker of the Kurdish-led administration who was on the protest.

Amini’s father has stated she had no well being issues and that she suffered bruises to her legs in custody and holds the police answerable for her loss of life.

Iranian police have denied harming her, saying she fell sick as she waited with different detained girls. Iran’s overseas ministry on Monday accused the US of utilizing the protests to attempt to destabilise the Islamic Republic.

Kurdish teams have managed swathes of north and northeastern Syria because the early days of the Syrian civil battle, establishing autonomy as President Bashar al-Assad – an ally of Iran – sought to place down rebellions elsewhere in Syria.

“We help the protests and uprisings in Iran,” stated Arwa al-Saleh, a member of the Kongra Star girls’s rights organisation that referred to as for the protest. “No to injustice, no to oppression … sure to girls’s rights,” she stated.

Girls have performed a outstanding function within the demonstrations in Iran, waving and burning their veils, with some publicly reducing their hair in a direct problem to clerical leaders. Iran’s Kurdistan province is likely one of the area’s swept by unrest.

The Kurdish ethnic minority stay principally in a area straddling the borders of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey.

Dozens of individuals protested over Amini’s loss of life on Sunday within the Iraqi Kurdish city of Suli. Final week, considered one of Iraq’s principal Kurdish leaders – Masoud Barzani – referred to as her household to pay condolences.