Homa Darabi

Dr. Homa Darabi (* January 1940, † 21 February 1994 in Tehran ) was an Iranian women's rights activist, a pediatrician and psychiatrist.

Life

In 1959 she began her medical studies at the University of Tehran, in 1968 a further education in the U.S. pediatrician, psychiatrist and child psychiatrist. In 1976 she returned to Iran in order - one of the first women ever - to accept a professorship at the University of Tehran. In 1990, she was dismissed due to their violation of the Islamic rules, then led his own practice, as in the years 1966 to 1968.

As an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1960 briefly detained, she was for the Iranian revolution, the radical implications were so not in sight. The case of a 16- year-old girl was shot for wearing lipstick, Homa Darabi ultimately brought about the decision to put a beacon against oppression. On 21 February 1994, Dr. Homa Darabi has burned in protest against the oppression publicly in Tehran itself. According to Amnesty International she was consciously a highly frequented shopping street in Tehran, tore her chador from the body and doused with gasoline.

Your last words were reportedly: Death of tyranny, long live freedom, long live Iran.