Iranian authorities intercepted the ill-fated young woman’s family lawyer, Mahsa Amini, and confiscated the Sakharov Prize awarded by the European Parliament as he was being transported to Iran, a human rights non-governmental organization said on Saturday.
According to Kurdish human rights organization Hengaw, cited by EFE, lawyer Saleh Nikbait was returning from France with a reward on Friday when he was detained by security forces at Tehran’s Khomeini Airport, who confiscated his passport and camera. telephone.
Since the Amini family is not allowed to leave the country, it was Nikbayt who represented the family at a ceremony in Strasbourg on December 12, during which the award was presented to the young woman who died in the custody of the Iranian morality police and members of the Iranian morality police. Movement “Women, Life and Freedom”.