Iran police fire on mourners for female protester - witnesses

Hadis Najafi: Iran police fire on mourners for female protester - witnesses

Authorities blocked roads, but failed to stop people reaching the cemetery where Hadis Najafi is buried

Iranian security forces have opened fire on crowds near Tehran marking the 40th day of mourning for a woman shot dead while protesting, witnesses say.

Videos showed thousands walking along roads to reach the grave in Karaj of Hadis Najafi, who has become a symbol of the anti-government unrest in Iran.

State-run media say "rioters" killed a militiaman and injured 10 police.

But witnesses told the BBC that security forces attacked protesters with shotguns, tear gas and machetes.

"They [security forces] were firing birdshot at people," said one person living in an area where there were clashes. "They stabbed a protester with a machete after he fell to the ground, already hit with birdshot."

Hadith Najafi is an internet personality. She had made various TikTok videos against the terrorist government and participated in many protests against the government.

She was so brave that she used to protest in front of police without any fear.

In the same month of 2022, she was shot in the head and her lifeless body was paraded by the police, her clothes were torn.

Her mother remembers her daughter as a cheerful, caring, intelligent young woman and an only daughter.

These terrorists beat and tortured her family to tell their propaganda media that she is not a Muslim.

Her mother also says that she was their only daughter. Hadis loved dancing, filming and acting.