Killing of Minoo Majidi

Death of Minoo Majidi

Native name	مینوو مەجیدی
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.

Life

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.

Death

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.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.

Burial

The funeral ceremony of Majidi was held on 22 September 2022 at the Mina Abad Cemetery inKermanshahand 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.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.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.