These women are protesting the deaths of protestors in Iran.
The irony is that they are standing next to the monument to Edith Cavell, an English nurse who was arrested, tried and executed in 1915.
Cavell was convicted of aiding wounded British and French soldiers to get over the border from Belgium into the Netherlands, which was neutral in the First World War.
Before her execution Cavell wrote:
I am thankful to have had these ten weeks of quiet to get ready. Now I have had them and have been kindly treated here. I expected my sentence and I believe it was just. Standing as I do in view of God and Eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
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