(16 Sep 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, UK - 16 September 2023
1. Various of protesters with banners and smoke in front of the Houses of Parliament
2. Protesters marching towards 10 Downing Street with flags, banners and signs, chanting
3. Mid of protesters marching with signs, chanting
3. Wide of protesters arriving in front of 10 Downing Street
4. Mid of protester marching
5. Close of protesters with banner in front of 10 Downing Street
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Fari Bradley, participant of the protest:
"It's now a solidarity movement. Men, young and old, are treating women with more respect, and women are finding ways to express themselves and then be supported by their male relatives and family and coworkers and even strangers in the street. So that's really shifted in Iran, that will not go backwards. So it's happened. It's already happened in terms of a sort of mind shift."
7. Close of sign with Mahsa Amini's face on it
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mansour Zadshir, participant of the protest:
"I think people have come together, both in Iran, outside Iran. It's one goal, one aim that this regime goes out of Iran because this regime is not for Iranian, is not for this type of history. The regime is really brutal. So we're all fighting. If it takes one year, two year, ten year, doesn't matter. We never stop. We want to see freedom, but to see mullahs out of Iran. And that's what we say. We want the Iranian embassy to be closed, to shut down, Iranian diplomat to be deported from Europe."
9. Various of protesters singing at #Sing4Freedom demonstration
10. Close of poster with drawing of Amini's face
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maryam Namazie, Iranian human rights activist in the U.K. and organiser of #Sing4Freedom protest:
"And we're calling on everyone to remember those killed, but also continue the fight, because this fight has to go to the end. Mahsa Jina Amini and the many others cannot have died in vain. We have to have a better society as the result of this huge, Herculean fight and struggle against one of the most brutal theocracy of the 21st century."
12. Wide of protesters at Trafalgar Square
13. Mid of banner
14. Close of dog wearing Iranian flag
STORYLINE:
Hundreds gathered in central London on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country's conservative Islamic theocracy.
Chanting “Women! Life! Freedom!," the crowds held her portrait and rallied around the memory of a young woman who died on Sept. 16, 2022, after she was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory headscarf law.
Similar protests took place in Italy, Germany and France.
In Iran, authorities sought to prevent the anniversary from reigniting the protests that gripped the country last year.
Amini’s father was detained outside his home after the family indicated that they planned to gather at her grave for a traditional service of commemoration, the Kurdish rights group Hengaw said.
People in downtown Tehran reported a heavy security presence, and security forces were seen in western Iran, where the Kurdish minority staged large protests last year.
"We're calling on everyone to remember those killed, but also continue the fight, because this fight has to go to the end," said Maryam Namazie, a human rights activist who organized one of the protests.
"Mahsa Jina Amini and the many others cannot have died in vain. We have to have a better society," she added.
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