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Killing of Minoo Majidi

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Death of Minoo Majidi
Native name مینوو مەجیدی
Date20 September 2022
LocationKermanshah, Kermanshah province, Iran
DeathsMinoo Majidi
Burialmina 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

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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

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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

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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.[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

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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 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.[17]

References

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  1. ^ "Hadis, Minoo and Ghazaleh: the women victims of Iran's crackdown". sg.news.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  2. ^ "A woman was killed in Kermanshah protests". Hengaw (in Kurdish (Arabic script)). 22 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  3. ^ Pourahmadi, Jomana Karadsheh, Tamara Qiblawi, Adam (13 October 2022). "How Iran's protests transformed into a national uprising". CNN. Retrieved 13 October 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Here's What Has Happened in Iran Since the Death of Mahsa Amini". Time. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  5. ^ "The Women Killed or Detained in Iran's Protests". The Iran Primer. 7 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  6. ^ "BBC identifies young people killed in Iran protests". MSN. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  7. ^ ادامه اعتراض‌ها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنج‌شنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت, Iran International, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  8. ^ آنچه تاکنون از اعتراضات روز ششم می‌دانیم, Melliun, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  9. ^ جنازة في كرمنشاه الإيرانية تتحول إلى مظاهرة ضد النظام أثناء تشييع "مينو مجيدي" الذي قتل برصاص الأمن منذ ثلاثة أيام, NABD, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  10. ^ چرخاندن روسری‌ها به نشانه اعتراض در مراسم خاکسپاری مینو مجیدی از کشته‌شدگان اعتراضات کرمانشاه, Voice of America, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  11. ^ تشییع جنازه مینو مجیدی در کرمانشاه با روسری های برداشته و شعار «زن , زندگی , آزادی», Iranian UK, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  12. ^ ادامه اعتراض‌ها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنج‌شنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت, Iran International, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022
  13. ^ "ادامه اعتراض‌ها علیه حکومت در ایران در روز پنج‌شنبه با وجود قطع گسترده اینترنت". ایران اینترنشنال (in Persian). 22 September 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  14. ^ Agencias, Trinidad Deiros Bronte (7 October 2022). "The faces of repression in Iran". EL PAÍS English Edition. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  15. ^ "'Women are in charge. They are leading': Iran protests continue despite crackdowns". the Guardian. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  16. ^ Rothwell, James (30 September 2022). "Iranian woman pictured dining without a headscarf thrown in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's old jail". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  17. ^ حضور دختر مینو مجیدی با سری تراشیده و موهای بریده در دست بر مزار مادرش, Al-Arabia/Corriere della Sera, 2022, retrieved 14 October 2022