Condemning Public Execution: Unveiled Woman Hangs Herself In Staged Protest

The agony among Iranians continues to rise as the country's brutal authorities leave no stone unturned in teaching the public a lesson for going against the national regime. On Monday, a young man was executed by being hanged publicly. The public expressed anger not just at the execution but also at the fact that he was sentenced to death in less than a month of being arrested and was denied a fair trial.

After 23-year-old Majidreza Rahnavard was publicly executed by Iranian authorities, a young unveiled woman hanged herself in a staged protest in the middle of the road in the city of Mashhad.

---

Suggested Reading: Iran Protests: Mandatory Hijab Rules And The Repression Of Women

---

Iranian woman hangs herself

A

مشهد ۲۱ آذر زنی در اعتراض به قتل #مجیدرضا_رهنورد طناب دار دور گردنش انداخته و وسط خیابان ایستاده است. pic.twitter.com/1fSGseCEH8

— +۱۵۰۰تصویر (@1500tasvir) December 12, 2022 class="s1">video clip shared on Twitter showed a protest that speaks volumes about Iran’s current state of affairs, where the public is out on the streets fighting against a regime that oppresses women and takes away their fundamental rights. The video was shot in Mashhad, a holy city in Iran, and it has now gone viral across social media platforms. In the video can be seen a young woman who has tied a noose around her neck and is standing in the middle of a busy road against the divider, pretending to be hanged. The video was shot by one of the commuters passing by in a car on that route.

The woman staged this protest specifically after Iranian citizen Majidreza Rahnavard was publicly executed on Monday. 23-year-old Rahnavard was detained last month during one of the protests he was participating in. Rahnavard was hanged from a construction crane publicly in order to show the protestors an example of what would happen if they accelerated their protest.

Rahnavard was the second person to be detained in the nationwide protests against the country's oppressive regimes. He was convicted on grounds of 'enmity against God. What's even more terrifying is that he neither got a fair trial nor an opportunity to choose his own lawyer. While his mother was allowed to sit him the night before he was hanged, she was not informed of his execution until he was dead.