Hundreds march to honour Iranian-Kurdish man who took his own life over protests
A woman poses with a rope around her neck as as people demonstrate in Lyon, central France, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Hundreds of people marched Sunday in France to honor an Iranian Kurdish man who took his own life in a desperate act of anguish over the nationwide protests in Iran.
HUNDREDS of people marched in France and other parts of Europe on Sunday to honour an Iranian-Kurdish man who took his own life over the nationwide protests in Iran.
French police estimated that about 1,000 people marched in Lyon, where Mohammad Moradi took his own life in December by drowning in the Rhone river.
In videos in Farsi and French recorded before his death, Mr Moradi criticised Iran’s leadership and called for solidarity from Western governments against it.
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