the fake video of the last moments of Hadis Najafi, a victim of repression

The video went around the world and the media. A young woman, filmed from behind, ties her blond hair behind a crowd visible in the background. The sequence quickly became a symbol of the Iranian protest and especially of the martyrs of the regime’s repression. Many journalists have indeed taken up the information that this video shows the last moments of one of these victims, Hadis Najafi, who was killed shortly after this recording.

This video ” illustrates above all the last moments of the life of Hadis Najafi, barely 20 years old “, writes the Figaro. ” Hair loose and knotted… The last image of Hadis Najafi, a 20-year-old Iranian woman killed by the police “says BFM TV.
Except that according to the BBC, this woman is still alive, and has nothing to do with Hadis Najafi, a victim of the repression of the demonstration against the compulsory wearing of the veil, who was killed around September 21.

Désintox found the first occurrence linking the video to the death of Hadis Najafi. This is’a tweet in Farsi from Iranian activist Shabnam Madadzadeh : “This video is about the brave girl #HadisNajafi before her martyrdom […] “. Information quickly taken up by many journalists. However, on September 26, the BBC’s Farsi antenna posted a message on Instagram and Twitter explaining that it had contacted the blonde woman in the video.

She explained to the British media that the purpose of the video was to encourage Iranian girls to ” have the courage to go out into the street and that she did not want the erroneous news of her death to frighten the demonstrators.

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