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Symbol of the Iranian revolt, the story around the death of Hadis Najafi called into question

2022-09-30T06:30:29.716Z


The images of a young Iranian woman, tying her blond hair devoid of a veil, had moved the planet because they would have preceded her death by a few hours. But according to the BBC, the young woman in the video is alive and well.


His death had shocked the planet.

Earlier this week, social media mourned the brutal death of Hadis Najafi, a 20-year-old Iranian protester, who was shot six times in the head, neck and chest by the country's security forces.

If this event had such a particular resonance, it is because a video, showing a young woman tying her blond hair in a bun, without a veil, before going to participate in the demonstrations had been presented as the last moments of Hadis Najafi before being slaughtered.

However, these two events could well be decorrelated.

The antenna of the BBC in Iran indeed relays the vocal testimony of a young woman, who explains to be the woman with the bun.

She also accompanies this message with a video, where she reproduces this hairstyle.

"

She said the purpose of recording this video was to encourage Iranian girls to 'have the courage to take to the streets'

," the BBC's Twitter account in Persian reads.

However, if the resemblance between the two videos is obvious, the voice message and the images are not dated and impossible to verify independently.

Symbol of women's emancipation

One element is unfortunately certain at the heart of this imbroglio: the demonstrator Hadis Najafi, 20, was shot dead six times by the Iranian police during a demonstration.

Hadis Najafi did not remain silent in the face of tyranny.

She was killed for protesting the brutal death of Mahsa Amini

,” American journalist and activist of Iranian origin Masih Alinejad announced on Twitter on September 25, posting a photo of the victim and the young woman in a bun.

Read alsoHow Iran made the veil the banner of Islamism and how the West has understood nothing for forty years

The NGO Amnesty International had already relayed the death of the young woman, without naming her, on September 23, in a report published on its website.

From the witnesses we interviewed and the photo of the victim's body, it appears that he was the target of shotgun fire with lead pellets, a weapon regularly used by ISIS forces. order against the demonstrators and which can prove to be lethal when it is used closely against them, which seems to be the case here

”, details in

Point

Raha Bahreini, a researcher specializing in Iran within the NGO.

One of the last photos published by Hadis Najafi on his Instagram account.

@hadisnajafi78

The young woman nevertheless remains a real symbol of this desire for the emancipation of Iranian women on social networks, long before the demonstrations.

On TikTok, she did not hesitate to stage herself dressed "

Western

", daring choreography and languorous dance steps to make the infamous "

morals police

" scream .

The Chinese social network and Instagram today represent one of the few means of expression available to the young generation, at a time when Facebook and Twitter have been banned from Iran for more than ten years.

Means of which they are also deprived today, since the Iranian government has chosen to cut off the internet to almost all of its 80 million inhabitants.

Personalities and journalists particularly targeted

Since the beginning of the protest movement, which broke out on September 16, more than 75 demonstrators have been killed by Iranian police, according to a count by the NGO Iran Human Rights dated September 26.

For their part, the Iranian authorities put forward a death toll of 41, including demonstrators and police and announce the arrest of more than 1,200 demonstrators.

Among the latter, two Iranian personalities: the singer Shervin Hajipour, arrested for a song in tribute to the protesters, which had accumulated more than 30 million views in two days, and the former footballer Hossein Mahini for messages of support.

The Iranian authorities have also declared that they will take action against the personalities who support the protest movement.

We are going to attack the celebrities who have blown on the embers

” of the “

riots

”, declared the governor of the province of Tehran, Mohsen Mansouri, quoted Thursday by the news agency ISNA.

On Thursday, a journalist who had covered Mahsa Amini's funeral was also arrested, her lawyer said.

The arrest came after that of journalist Nilufar Hamedi of the daily

Shargh

, who went to the hospital where Mahsa Amini was in a coma and helped publicize the case.

Source: lefigaro

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