Homa Darabi
Homa Darabi (* January 1940 ; † February 21, 1994 in Tehran ) was an Iranian women's rights activist , doctor of pediatrician and psychiatrist .
Life
In 1959 she began her medical studies at the University of Tehran , and in 1968 further training in the USA as a pediatrician, psychiatrist and child psychiatrist. In 1976 she returned to Iran to be one of the first women ever to accept a professorship at the University of Tehran. In 1990 she was dismissed for violating Islamic regulations, after which she ran her own practice, as in 1966–1968.
Briefly imprisoned as an opponent of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1960, she was in favor of the Iranian Revolution , the radical effects of which were not in sight. The case of a 16-year-old girl who was shot for wearing lipstick ultimately led Homa Darabi to decide to send a signal against the oppression. On February 21, 1994, Dr. Homa Darabi himself publicly burned in Tehran in protest against the repression . According to Amnesty International , she deliberately chose a busy shopping street in Tehran, tore off her chador and doused herself with gasoline.
Her last words were supposedly: Death to tyranny, long live freedom, long live Iran .
Her sister, Parvin Darabi, founded the “Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation ”in California.
literature
- Parvin Darabi, Romin P. Thomson: You wanted to fly. Life and death of the Iranian doctor Homa Darabi . Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, ISBN 3-404-61425-9 and (1999 and 2001) ISBN 978-3-7857-0835-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Homa Darabi in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.homa.org/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parvin Darabi and Romin Thomson: You wanted to fly. From the American by Peter A. Schmidt, Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1997, cover text for the paperback edition 1999, p. 2
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Darabi, Homa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1940 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1994 |
| Place of death | Tehran |