Killing of Minoo Majidi
Native name | مینوو مەجیدی |
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Date | 20 September 2022 |
Location | Kermanshah,Kermanshah province,Iran |
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 theSeptember 2022 Iranian protests.[1]
Life
[edit]Minoo Majidi was an Iranian woman ofKurdish ethnicitywho was born in 1960 in aYarsanfamily, in the city ofQasr-e Shirin.She lived in the city ofKermanshahwith her husband and three children.[2]
Death
[edit]Following the death ofMahsa Aminiin the custody of theMorality Police,a wave of anti-regime protests began inSaqqez—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
[edit]The funeral ceremony of Majidi was held on 22 September 2022 at the Mina Abad Cemetery inKermanshahand turned into an anti-government demonstration.[7][8][9]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.[10][11][12]
Image
[edit]Days after the burial of Majidi, in which women unveiled and the attendees chanted in protest, a photo of her daughter went viral.[13][14]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.[15][16]The ItalianCorriere della Seranewspaper 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.[17]
References
[edit]- ^"Hadis, Minoo and Ghazaleh: the women victims of Iran's crackdown".sg.news.yahoo.Archived fromthe originalon 13 October 2022.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^"A woman was killed in Kermanshah protests".Hengaw(in Kurdish (Arabic script)). 22 September 2022.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^Pourahmadi, Jomana Karadsheh, Tamara Qiblawi, Adam (13 October 2022)."How Iran's protests transformed into a national uprising".CNN.Retrieved13 October2022.
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- ^جنازة في كرمنشاه الإيرانية تتحول إلى مظاهرة ضد النظام أثناء تشييع "مينو مجيدي" الذي قتل برصاص الأمن منذ ثلاثة أيام,NABD, 2022,retrieved14 October2022
- ^چرخاندن روسریها به نشانه اعتراض در مراسم خاکسپاری مینو مجیدی از کشتهشدگان اعتراضات کرمانشاه,Voice of America, 2022,retrieved14 October2022
- ^تشییع جنازه مینو مجیدی در کرمانشاه با روسری های برداشته و شعار «زن, زندگی, آزادی»,Iranian UK, 2022,retrieved14 October2022
- ^ادامه اعتراضها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنجشنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت,Iran International, 2022,retrieved14 October2022
- ^"ادامه اعتراضها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنجشنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت".ایران اینترنشنال(in Persian). 22 September 2022.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^Agencias, Trinidad Deiros Bronte (7 October 2022)."The faces of repression in Iran".EL PAÍS English Edition.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^"'Women are in charge. They are leading': Iran protests continue despite crackdowns ".the Guardian.1 October 2022.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^Rothwell, James (30 September 2022)."Iranian woman pictured dining without a headscarf thrown in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's old jail".The Telegraph.ISSN0307-1235.Retrieved13 October2022.
- ^حضور دختر مینو مجیدی با سری تراشیده و موهای بریده در دست بر مزار مادرش,Al-Arabia/Corriere della Sera, 2022,retrieved14 October2022