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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Homa Darabi (Шаблон:Lang-fa; 1940–1994) was an Iranian child psychiatrist, academic, and political activist affiliated with the Nation Party of Iran. She is known for her political self-immolation in protest to the compulsory hijab, which led to her death.

Biography

Darabi was born in 1940[1] in Tehran. Following the end of high school, she entered Medical School of University of Tehran in 1959.[2] In 1960, she was detained for organizing a student demonstration in favor of the National Front.[3] She married her classmate Manoochehr Keyhani in 1963.[2] After completing her studies, she practiced in the village Bahmanieh, located in northern Iran.[3] Darabi went to the United States to continue her studies, and obtained a pediatrics specialist degree in psychology.[2] She returned to Iran in 1976 and was employed as a professor of child psychiatry at University of Tehran, while she became once again politically active against the Pahlavi dynasty.[3] She also taught at the National University (later known as Shahid Beheshti University).[4]

She was dismissed from her position for "non-adherence to hijab" in December 1991. Although a tribunal in May 1993 overturned the decision, the university refused to restore her position.[3]

Death

As a sign of protest, Darabi immolated herself by pouring petrol over her head on 21 February 1994, after she had taken her hijab off in a public thoroughfare near Tajrish.[3][4]

She died from the burns in a hospital the next day.[5]

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