Mahsa Amini's family blocked from leaving Iran for EU rights prize

The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously. Amini died aged 22 on September 16, 2022, while being held by Iran's religious police for breaching the Islamic republic's dress code. Her family and supporters say she was killed. Iranian authorities claim she died from a previously undisclosed medical condition. The EU awarded the Sakharov Prize to her and the global movement her death triggered.