A young Iranian woman, Hadis Najafi, whose video of tying
her unscarved hair back and stepping into the middle of a protest went viral,
was allegedly shot dead in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A video of her funeral has gone viral on social media, which
shows people weeping over a photo of her. According to human rights activists,
she was shot by security forces in the abdomen, neck, heart and hand.
According to a human rights activist, she was a 20-year-old
girl who was getting ready to join the protest against the murder of Mahsa
Amini. She got killed by 6 bullets. The human rights activist claimed that she
was shot in the chest, face and neck by Islamic Republic's security forces.
The deadly protest has rocked Iran for more than a week. The
protest broke out after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody. She was
arrested for "improper" Hijab, a headscarf women must wear by law in
Iran.
The medical evidence showed that Mahsa Amini from the
Iranian province of Kurdistan suffered several violent blows to the head, which
put her into a coma. The doctor pronounced her dead on 16 September. However,
Iran's authorities claimed that she "suffered a sudden heart attack.”
Human rights activists accused the Iranian morality police of beating Amini to
death.
After Amini's funeral ceremony, security forces fired tear
gas on protesters in the city of Saqqez, the hometown of Amini. However, it did
not stop protesters from continuing their protests. Protesters chanted against
Iran's supreme leader and the Islamic Republic. Many people have been killed
since protests broke out in Iran last week. According to human rights
organisations, the vast majority of these deaths have come from security forces
violently suppressing demonstrators.
The United Kingdom (UK) government has sharply condemned the
"killing" of Amini. The United States (US) also slammed Iran over the
death of Amini.
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