Women in Moscow and Marseille march for Ferinaz
NEWS DESK (DİHA) - The Kurdish institutions in Moscow held a press conference in support of the democratic protests of the people of Mahabad and demanded an investigation of those responsible for the death of Ferizan Xosrawanî, the young woman who threw herself from the 4th floor of a hotel she was working in to avoid being raped.
The joint press conference urged the Iranian regime to abandon its policies of rape and denial and called for support for the protest actions held after the death of Xosrawani. The conference was held in front of the building of Mala Kurda and demanded that those behind the death of Xosrawani be found out immediately.
Reading out the press statement, Rozerin Doğan, a member of Viyan, a Kurdish Women’s Organisation in Moscow, stressed that the suicide of Xosrawani to avoid being raped is a rebellion against the rape culture and the policies of denial pursued by the Iranian regime, adding that the protests emerging in Mahabad afterwards are a continuation of this rebellion against the policies of denial of the Iranian regime against the Kurdish people.
Doğan said the suicide of Ferinaz resisted the rape culture and deciphered the dirty policies of the male dominant system in Kurdistan, adding that the Kurdish women will never remain silent in the face of these sexist policies.
The statement further stressed that the uprisings in Mahabad and other cities of East Kurdistan demonstrate the demand of the Kurdish people to live in dignity and called on all the Kurdish people worldwide to support the protests against the rape culture and colonialist policies of the Iranian regime.
Protests in Marseille
Meanwhile, a protest action against the Iranian regime and in support of the uprising of the Kurdish people in East Kurdistan against the death of Ferinaz was held in Marseille in France. The action in Marseille was organised on the initiative of Tevgera Jinên Kurdên li Ewropa- European Kurdish Women’s Movement (TJK-E) and the youth organisation, Cîwanên Azad, in the city centre. The crowd carried placards that read: “Je suis Ferinaz” and pictures of Ferinaz. The speeches at the rally stressed that Ferinaz has become the voice of Kurdish women, the symbol of resistance against the reactionary policies and culture of today’s Middle East.
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