TOhe was only 20 years old Hadis Najafi and it was brutally killed with six shots from the Iranian security forces, which hit her in the chest, face and neck.
Protests in Iran: people die without a veil
Blond hair and no veil, was protesting in the city of Karaj, near Tehran, as many are doing. The cause is the killing of Mahsa Aminiwho also died after being arrested by the moral police for not wearing the veil correctly.
All over the world there is a protest against the killing of girls without headscarves in Iran
Hadis Najafi, symbol of the protests in Iran
Najafi had become one of the girls symbol of protestsbecause he faced the police without a veil, fearlessly showing his own contrary to mandatory hijab and the discriminatory laws of the Islamic Republic.
And the gesture of tie your hair with the rubber band before joining the demonstrators, which can be seen in a video circulated on social media, it immediately went viral.
An absolutely common gesture for Western women, but that in Iran you can pay with your life.
# حدیث_نجفی pic.twitter.com/i4AuKVOmXd
– Leili Bazargan (@Leilibazargan) September 25, 2022
The family buried her in a confidential funeral. The police monitor that relatives of the victims do not make the ceremonies public to prevent them from becoming hotbeds of new protests.
مراسم خاکسپاری # حدیث_نجفی
دختر ۲۰ سالهای که در بلوار ارم کرج به ضرب گلولهی نیروهای سرکوب ج.ا کشته شد.
حدیث همان دختریست که جسورانه موهایش را از پشت بست تا به مصاف ایرانستیزان برود.# مهسا_امینی#MahsaAmini #OpIran pic.twitter.com/TdS4o7gnvm– Leili Bazargan (@Leilibazargan) September 24, 2022
All in the square after Mahsa Amini’s death
Protests broke out in Iran after the killing of Mahsa Amini who was 22 years old. Arrested and beaten to death because he wore badly the veil imposed by the Islamic republic, this time hundreds of people reacted. Especially very young, 20, 22, 25 years old, they took to the street, baring their hair and in some cases burning the hijab.
And, despite a massive intervention by the “police of morality”, the demonstrations have grown over the days and have expanded to various cities in the country.
Outraged girls, but with the hope that their struggle for freedom and the right to choose their own destiny despite all the brutality to which they are subject, it may one day become reality.
The crackdown kills nearly 50 people
But the brutality of the repression has claimed several victims. 41, state TV says, at least 50 according to the non-governmental organization Iran Human Rights.
Among these many girls. How Hananeh Kia23, hit by a bullet in Noshahr, in the north, o Ghazale Chelavi, 32, from Amo. Hundreds of people were arrested, 1,200 were identified. Many students were also taken from home and arrested.
Solidarity with young Iranians it arrived yesterday from EU High Representative Josep Borrell. Who condemned “the widespread and disproportionate use of force against non-violent demonstrators” calling it “unjustifiable and unacceptable“.
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