Catalan parliament condemns assassination of Mahsa Amini in Iran

A declaration was read in the Catalan parliament on Friday morning in which the chamber condemned the assassination of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran's morality police.

The text, which was read by Junts' Aurora Madaula, expressed the parliament's solidarity with Iranian women as well as the men who have taken to the streets in violently suppressed protests against the Islamic republic in the wake of Amini's death.

It criticizes those who wish to use her death for "partisan, ideological, racist and Islamophobic" purposes in "discriminatory hate speeches."

The declaration was signed by the spokespersons of Esquerra, Junts, the Socialists, CUP, En Comú Podem, Ciudadanos, and the People's Party – that is to say, all parties but far-right Vox – and calls for an exhaustive and independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding Amini's passing.

It also calls on European institutions and EU member states to "support" Iranian civil society.

A few hundred people gathered in Barcelona on Tuesday to participate in a "woman, life, freedom" solidarity protest.