Why did Homa Darabi set herself on fire in protest against the mandatory hijab?

She returned to Iran in 1976 and was employed as a professor of child psychiatry at the university while becoming once again politically active against the Pahlavi dynasty. She also taught at the National University (later known as Shahid Beheshti University). As a sign of protest, Darabi immolated herself by pouring gasoline over her head on February 21, 1994, after she had taken her hijab off in a public thoroughfare near Tajikistan. She died from the burns in a hospital the next day.

February 24, 2023 | 9:02 am