Amrit Kaur is resigning as leader of the Red Youth following media coverage and criticism of a video [she made] about the murder of the radical right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Kaur has been under strong pressure to resign from the position after she posted an apparently sarcastic and strongly ironic TikTok video about the murder of the American right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, and she has told Subject that she has chosen to resign.

—“To show that I’m taking the situation seriously, I have chosen to resign as leader of the Red Youth. I wish the organization the best, because it has many important battles to fight. That’s why I’m resigning,” she explains.

She also writes in a Facebook post, “It’s the battle for a just world and against imperialism which is the most important. That’s why I’m resigning as leader of the Red Youth.”

She removed the TikTok video shortly after uploading it and said she regretted it, but the criticism did not end there. The leader of the Red Party, [the Red Youth’s parent organization,] Marie Sneve Martinussen, said on Thursday evening that Kaur was not suited as leader of the party’s youth wing.

—“The Red Party strongly distances itself from all forms of violence and murder. It is wholly inappropriate to joke about it. Kaur should’ve never done this,” Martinussen said.

Kaur further writes on Facebook, “Neither I nor the Red Youth support the murder of Charlie Kirk nor assassinations in general. [My remarks were] poorly thought through and I understand why people are reacting so strongly. This has ended up impacting the Red Youth as an organization, and its members.”