Maysoon Majidithe Kurdish-Iranian activist and director accused of being a smuggler and for this reason detained for ten months, could become an honorary citizen of Riace. “She is a fighter for freedom, for respect for human rights.” The mayor and MEP announced it Mimmo Lucano, stayed away from Brussels to participate in the sit-in organized to ask for the activist’s release in front of the Catanzaro court, where the lawyer returned to ask for his release.
“Italy fought fascism, give freedom to my niece who rebelled against the ayatollahs”. The appeal of Maysoon’s uncle, the director in prison as a smuggler
by Alessia Candito
At the trial that is being held against her in Crotone, the evidence against her is gradually crumbling, even the mediator to whom – in the reconstruction of the prosecutor’s office – she would have told about her role on board has denied the version recorded in the minutes. “Let us never lose hope that he will return to being a free person, a political militant,” Lucano said.
Protagonist of the protests following the murder of Mahsa Aminidirector and activist Maysoon Majidi had to flee from Iran. Persecuted because she was Kurdish, because she was a woman and because she was a recognized activist, she feared for her life in the land of the ayatollahs. And they would never have allowed her to leave the country with a visa. For this reason – she explained several times both in the courtroom and to those who met her in prison – she escaped by taking the only possible route: the eastern Mediterranean route, which leads from Turkey to Europe.
Women’s rights activist flees the Iranian regime, but ends up in prison in Italy as a “captain”
Alessia Candito
He was traveling with his brother and with him he hoped to join his uncle in Germany, he never intended to stop in Italy. But shortly after landing, on New Year’s Eve in Roccella Jonica, she was stopped, interrogated and detained. Since then, she has never left prison again. “For his battles for freedom and human rights he paid a very high price, but we never lose hope that a sense of justice will prevail”, says Lucano, who is slowly trying to rebuild the country of hospitality in Riace .
The village is repopulating. There are no longer public projects, but the reception continues thanks to the funds that the “A Buon Diritto” Foundation had put together to pay the huge fine that Lucano had been sentenced to by the Court of Locri. And migrants and refugees are returning. The last one is a mother, who arrived with her three children. “A policeman paid him the ticket, I would like to meet him because it shows that we are still human”.
