Skip To Content
Princeton University Library
Princeton University Library
Digital Collections
    • English
    • Español
    • Português
    • Log in

Something went wrong!

Hang in there while we get back on track

Ephemera

Romina Shahidi

2022

main image display
Look closer
Similar
No Known Copyright

Files

2 of 2 images
image 0
image 1
1, 2 – Aida Rostami, a 36-year-old Iranian physician, was allegedly kidnapped and fatally beaten by Iranian security forces. She was killed for treating protesters injured during anti-government protests following the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini. Protestors, fearing detention, torture, prosecution, or death, avoided seeking medical help in hospitals. Aida Rostami secretly provided medical care to protestors in Ekbatan and other neighborhoods in western Tehran. One day, she left a protester's home but never came back. Her family was informed the next morning by a local police station that she had died in a car crash, and they needed to retrieve her body from a morgue.
2 – Kian Pirfalak, was a nine-year-old boy from the southwestern Iranian city of Izeh in Khuzestan Province. He was shot and killed by the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran on November 16, 2022, while he was inside his parent's vehicle during a protest staged in response to the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini. A video capturing Kian testing his hand-made boat and uttering the phrase "in the name of the God of rainbows'' gained immense attention online. This symbolic reference to rainbows has since emerged as a significant motif within the various memorials honoring Kian.
Collection
Part of Woman Life Freedom Movement: Iran 2022
This exhibit preserves part of the digital art from the Woman, Life, Freedom movement of Iran following the police killing of Mahsa Jina Amini in September 2022.
Similar
No Known Copyright

Metadata

Creator of work
Shahidi, Romina
Language
Persian
Geographic Origin
Iran
Geographic Subject
Iran
Subject
Arts and culture
Arts
Arts--Political aspects
Human and civil rights
Collective memory
Freedom of expression
Human rights
Political violence
Women's rights
Minorities, ethnic and racial groups
Minorities
Politics and government
Civil society
Democracy
Revolutions
View all metadata for this item

Share this item

https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/i/romina-shahidi/item/4142423e-0842-493e-a1f2-e6c9181c782a

Similar Items in this Collection

  • Hana Aslani

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    Save
  • Bahar Seyedin

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    Save
  • Kian Ashrafi

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    Save
  • Touraj Saberivand

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    Save
  • Mohammad Reza Sabokro

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    11 Files
    Save

Similar Items outside this Collection

  • Shoot to kill : preliminary findings of justice of Iran's investigatio...

    Date
    2020
    Origin
    Iran
    44 Files
    Save
  • Waging war on civilians : exposing Iran's repressive units and crimes...

    Date
    2024
    Origin
    United Kingdom
    249 Files
    Save
  • Massacre in Javanrud : state atrocities against protesters in Iran’s K...

    Date
    2023
    Origin
    United States
    100 Files
    Save
  • Gustavo Inzaurralde. Detenido Desaparecido en Paraguay el 28. 03. 1977...

    Date
    2024
    Origin
    Uruguay
    Save
  • Targeted crackdown on human rights defenders

    Date
    2022
    Origin
    Iran
    33 Files
    Save

Suggest a correction

Please use this area to report errors, omissions, or problematic language that appear in the description of this collection. Corrections may include misspellings, incorrect or missing dates, misidentified individuals, places, or events, mislabeled folders, misfiled papers, etc.

Sorry, something went wrong. Either the message was blank or there was an error with the form submission. Please try again or email the library directly.

Viewer

Share this image

https://digital-collections.princeton.edu/i/romina-shahidi/item/4142423e-0842-493e-a1f2-e6c9181c782a/viewer/1

  • Copyright Policy
  • Privacy Notice
  • Accessibility Help
© 2025 The Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton University