Iran protests: Canada’s House of Commons adopts ‘solidarity’ motion after woman’s death
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Mahsa Amini's death has been a catalyst, spurring Iranian women to publicly remove their headscarves, cut their hair and burn their hijabs in protest.
Canadian members of Parliament adopted a motion on Wednesday standing in “solidarity” with the women of Iran amid protests that have erupted after the death of a young woman who had been detained by that country’s morality police.
Bloc Quebecois MP Andréanne Larouche moved the unanimous consent motion after question period.
It asked for the House of Commons to “extend its sympathies to the family of Mahsa Amini, and her Kurdish name is Gina, a 22-year-old woman who died after being arrested in Tehran for dressing inappropriately by the Iranian morality police, and that the House express its solidarity with the women of Iran who are fighting for their rights and freedoms.”
No members of Parliament opposed the motion, and it was adopted.
Unanimous consent motions do not receive formal votes, and do not always reflect official government policies. Rather, they are adopted only if no MP voices opposition to them when the motion is moved.
The motion reflects the will of the House of Commons, rather than the government itself.
According to the BBC, Amini fell into a coma and died just hours after being detained in Tehran by Iran’s morality police on Sept. 13. She had been accused of breaking a modesty law that requires women to wear a headscarf, cover their arms and legs and wear loose clothing. The BBC also reported that several witnesses claimed Amini was beaten inside a police vehicle en route to a detention centre.
“They killed my angel,” Amini’s mother said in an interview with BBC Persian on Sept. 16.
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