Berlin, Oct 22 (EFE) .- At least 80,000 people, according to police estimates, marched today through the government district in Berlin in solidarity with the protests in Iran, a number that far exceeds the 50,000 protesters expected by the organizers of the summons.
Crowds of people were arriving for hours from all directions to join the demonstration, during which some arrests were carried out, although in general it took place “very peacefully,” a police officer quoted by the newspaper “Berliner Zeitung” said.
According to the German-Iranian journalist Natalie Amiri, Tehran correspondent for the German public broadcaster ARD, between 2015 and 2020, entire buses arrived in Berlin from Stockholm, London, Brussels, Paris and Zurich, to participate in “the largest solidarity act in favor of people protesting in Iran against the regime.
Already during the night of yesterday and in the early hours of today, numerous Iranians had arrived from dozens of cities in Berlin to express their support for the protests against the regime.
Among the slogans that could be heard during the demonstration, organized by the “Woman Life Freedom Kollektiv”, an initiative that campaigns against oppression and discrimination in Iran, is the motto of the protests, “Woman, Life, Freedom”, as well as “Death to Khamenei”.
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, had described as “small disturbances” that he attributed to foreign conspiracies the protests triggered by the death of the young Iranian Kurdish Mahsa Amini after being detained by the moral police on the grounds that she was wearing the veil wrong required.
Several members of the Kurdish community also demonstrated in front of the Iranian embassy in Berlin with a flower offering and a minute of silence against the violent actions of the security forces in Iran. EFE
