Rallies of solidarity with the protests in Iran

Numerous people demonstrated in Kassel at the weekend, to express their solidarity with the protests in Iran. There, a few days ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amînî died in Iranian police custody as a result of injuries inflicted on her under torture.

Femicide in Bad Arolsen

Last Monday in Bad Arolsen, a 32-year-old woman was killed by her husband with several knife wounds. In Kassel, the murdered woman was remembered at a vigil and the act classified as femicide.

“Place of the Resistant Women”

Am 30. April feminists celebrated Walpurgis Night with a demonstration in Kassel. The night before, the place at the Goethestern was in the “Place of the Resistant Women” renamed. The activists want to draw attention to the ongoing violence against women and re-own a place with decades of feminist tradition.