Photo: BBC Persian
Minoo Majidi
مینو مجیدی
1960–2022 · 4 years ago
- Born
- 11 July 1960
- Taken
- 20 September 2022
- Age
- 62 years old
- From
- Kermanshah, Kermanshah
Kept on this phone only. Nothing is sent.
Their life
Minoo was born in Qasr-e Shirin in 1960 and spent her life in Kermanshah. She trained as a science teacher in Tabriz, but was purged after the Cultural Revolution and never taught in a school again; for a while she taught table tennis to deaf and hard-of-hearing students instead. She loved sport, literature and, for a time, horse riding.
A Kurd from a Sunni family, she was not religious. Her children call her the rock the family leaned on: kind to everyone, believing in freedom. Before she went out on the night she was killed, she told her worried husband that if they stayed home while other people's children were killed, they could never say they had made a revolution.
How the regime took them
On the evening of 20 September 2022 Minoo joined the protests at Kermanshah's Nobahar crossroads. Minutes after she began chanting with the crowd, security forces shot her from behind with a shotgun at close range; the medical examiner counted 167 pellets in her body. She died at once.
The family recovered her body only by saying she had been on her way to the dentist. Officials blamed the MEK, and agents pressured the family not to hold her fortieth-day memorial.
