Germany: Thousands of people at Iran demos in several major cities

Germany: Thousands of people at Iran demos in several major cities

Last weekend, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Berlin to show their solidarity with the protesters in Iran. Now there were demonstrations again in several cities.

Thousands of people in several cities have once again expressed their solidarity with the protesters in Iran. In Cologne there were three demonstrations in the city center on Saturday – according to the police, several thousand people took part.

According to the police, around 3,000 people came together in Düsseldorf, significantly more than expected. The organizer initially registered 750 participants. The demonstrations were uneventful, said a police spokesman.

After the large demonstration with tens of thousands of participants last weekend in Berlin, a human chain formed between the Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate in the early afternoon. According to the police, up to 1,600 people took part. In the late afternoon there were already significantly fewer.

Posters with photos by Mahsa Amini

On posters, the demonstrators demanded the immediate release of all political prisoners in Iran or “Down with the Islamic Republic”. Posters with photos of Mahsa Amini could be seen again and again.

The death of the 22-year-old Iranian Kurd in mid-September is seen as the trigger for the mass protests in Iran against the government’s authoritarian course that have been going on for weeks. The United Nations has expressed “increasing concern” about reports of deaths in the protests in Iran.

In Hamburg, around 350 people took to the streets on Saturday in support of the protesters in Iran.

Source: Stern

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