South African feminists are organising a two-day workshop for International Feminist Solidarity in protest at the death sentences in Iran of two women Kurdish socio-political activists, Pakhshan Azizi and Sharife Mohammadi.
Following the handing down of the death sentence to Azizi and Mohammadi, global solidarity with the two women is growing.
On the 14th anniversary of the notorious execution of Kurdish political prisoner Shirin Allam Houli and four of her comrades in Evin Prison, Tehran, the Community of Free Women of Eastern Kurdistan (KJAR) has launched a campaign titled “No to Execution, Yes to Free Life.”
As part of this campaign, South African feminists and women activists held a two-day workshop for International Feminist Solidarity. On 10 August, in response to the the death sentences of Pakhshan Azizi and Sharife Mohammadi and as part of the workshop, they held a protest march to the front of the Iranian embassy in the South African capital Pretoria.
During the march, activists called for global solidarity to overturn the death sentences of Azizi and Mohammadi, and condemned the Iranian regime’s repressive actions.
In their statement, the activists called for women to organise, and insisted on continuing their struggle for the freedom of all imprisoned women.
Numerous other women’s organisations have also protested against the death sentences of Azizi and Sharife Mohammadi.
