Killing of Minoo Majidi explained

Death of Minoo Majidi
Native Name:Kurdish: مینوو مەجیدی
Native Name Lang:Persian
Date:20 September 2022
Location:Kermanshah, Kermanshah province, Iran
Reported Deaths:Minoo Majidi
Burial:mina abad Cemetery

Minoo Majidi (1960 – 20 September 2022) was a 62-year-old Iranian woman who was killed by Iranian authorities during the September 2022 Iranian protests.[1]

Life

Minoo Majidi was an Iranian woman of Kurdish ethnicity who was born in 1960 in a Yarsan family, in the city of Qasr-e Shirin. She lived in the city of Kermanshah with her husband and three children.[2]

Death

Following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Morality Police, a wave of anti-regime protests began in Saqqez —Mahsa Amini's place of birth and burial— which quickly spread across Iran and all around the world.[3] [4] Minoo Majidi was one of the protesters on the streets of Kermanshah who was shot and killed by the forces of the Islamic Republic on 20 September 2022.[5] [6]

Burial

The funeral ceremony of Majidi was held on 22 September 2022 at the Mina Abad Cemetery in Kermanshah and turned into an anti-government demonstration. The women present at the ceremony took off their hijab as a sign of protest and chanted slogans like "Woman, Life, Freedom" and anti-regime slogans.

Image

Days after the burial of Majidi, in which women unveiled and the attendees chanted in protest, a photo of her daughter went viral.[7] [8] In the photo, her daughter stands beside her mother's grave with her bare shaved head, holding her own hair, and staring into the camera in unbending defiance.[9] [10] The Italian Corriere della Sera newspaper published a picture of Majidi's daughter at her mother's grave and called it a new symbol of Iranian women's struggle for freedom.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hadis, Minoo and Ghazaleh: the women victims of Iran's crackdown . 13 October 2022 . sg.news.yahoo.com . en-SG . 13 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221013213751/https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hadis-minoo-ghazaleh-women-victims-045851100.html . dead .
  2. Web site: A woman was killed in Kermanshah protests . 13 October 2022 . Hengaw. ku-Arab.
  3. Web site: Pourahmadi . Jomana Karadsheh, Tamara Qiblawi, Adam . 13 October 2022 . How Iran's protests transformed into a national uprising . 13 October 2022 . CNN . en.
  4. Here's What Has Happened in Iran Since the Death of Mahsa Amini . 13 October 2022 . Time . en.
  5. Web site: 7 October 2022 . The Women Killed or Detained in Iran's Protests . 13 October 2022 . The Iran Primer . en.
  6. News: BBC identifies young people killed in Iran protests . en-US . MSN . 14 October 2022.
  7. Web site: ادامه اعتراض‌ها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنج‌شنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت . 13 October 2022 . ایران اینترنشنال . fa.
  8. Web site: Agencias . Trinidad Deiros Bronte . 7 October 2022 . The faces of repression in Iran . 13 October 2022 . EL PAÍS English Edition . en-us.
  9. Web site: 1 October 2022 . 'Women are in charge. They are leading': Iran protests continue despite crackdowns . 13 October 2022 . the Guardian . en.
  10. News: Rothwell . James . 30 September 2022 . Iranian woman pictured dining without a headscarf thrown in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's old jail . en-GB . The Telegraph . 13 October 2022 . 0307-1235.