The brutal crackdown against women’s oppression in Iran has reached a boiling point. Hadis Najafi, a 23-year-old Iranian woman, was shot dead by security forces in Karaj city, near Tehran, last week. Shot six times, she sustained multiple injuries to her abdomen, neck, heart and hand. She was killed simply because she stood up against patriarchy. The same patriarchy that killed another young woman, Mahsa Amini, on September 16.

Amini was shot by Iran's morality police for refusing the symbol of oppression-hijab (a head cover). Najafi was shot dead because she protested against the vicious morality police and the horrifying, barbaric, religious norms that have subjugated women in Iran for decades. Like Amini, she has now become a symbol of valiant defiance against the Islamic regime.