BBC identifies many more people killed in demonstrations after Mahsa Amini's death

Headlines 11:05 06 Dec, 2022
"If I don't go out and protest, who else will?"
BBC identifies many more people killed in demonstrations after Mahsa Amini's death

The last words of Minoo Majidi to her family before she died. 

Minoo was 62 when she was shot by security forces on the streets of Kermanshah in the west of Iran. According to her daughter, she was shot with more than 178 gun pellets. She died in hospital, Qazet.az presents.

Following Minoo's death, her daughter Roya Piraei posted an Instagram photo taken next to her mother's grave. Her head shaven, she was holding her own hair as a sign of mourning and defiance. It quickly went viral. 

"I knew I couldn't speak out. This is all I could do to show how cruel this system is," Roya told BBC 100 Women.