Angelina Jolie pide libertad para las mujeres de Irán mientras continúan las protestas tras la muerte de Mahsa Amini.

“Women don’t need their morals policed, their minds re-educated, or their bodies controlled,” Angelina Jolie wrote Wednesday in a post raising awareness about the current unrest in Iran

Angelina Jolie is calling attention to the ongoing protests in Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini.

Amini died Sept. 16 in Iran after being detained by the country’s Morality Police for allegedly wearing a hijab too loosely. Demonstrations broke out following Amini’s death, and the ongoing unrest has seen women burning their hijabs or cutting their hair in protest.

On Wednesday, the Academy Award winner shared several images taken in the streets of Iran to Instagram, raising awareness about the ongoing situation in the Middle East.

“Respect to the brave, defiant, fearless women of Iran,” Jolie wrote in the caption of her post. “All those who have survived and resisted for decades, those taking to the streets today, and Mahsa Amini and all young Iranians like her.”

According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Amini was transferred to a hospital in a coma the same day she was detained for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely, “and died two days later from internal injuries.”

In response to Amini’s death “and other human rights violations in Iran,” State Department Secretary Antony Blinken said last week the U.S. has imposed sanctions — both on Iran’s Morality Police and on “senior security officials who have engaged in serious human rights abuses.”

As Blinken described in his statement, Iran’s Morality Police is part of the country’s Law Enforcement Forces, and “arrests women for wearing ‘inappropriate’ hijab and enforces other restrictions on freedom of expression.”

The sanctions will target “seven senior leaders of Iran’s security organizations: the Morality Police, Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the Army’s Ground Forces, Basij Resistance Forces, and Law Enforcement Forces,” according to the Treasury Department.

“These officials oversee organizations that routinely employ violence to suppress peaceful protesters and members of Iranian civil society, political dissidents, women’s rights activists, and members of the Iranian Baha’i community,” the Treasury Department statement said.

Meanwhile, the director of Iran Human Rights, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam released a statement Monday via the organization’s website, sharing, “The risk of torture and ill-treatment of protesters is serious and the use of live ammunition against protesters is an international crime.”

“We call on the international community to decisively and unitedly take practical steps to stop the killing and torture of protesters,” he continued. “The world must defend the Iranian people’s demands for their fundamental rights.”

Source:https://people.com