Name Homa Darabi | Siblings Parvin Darabi | |
Died February 21, 1994, Tehran, Iran People also search for Parvin Darabi, Mohammad Ebrahim Hemmat, Ruhollah Khomeini | ||
Women Under Islam, Pt One
Homa Darabi (January 1940 – February 21, 1994 in Tehran) was a pediatrician from Iran licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California. Darabi studied medicine in the United States and returned to Iran in 1976 to work as a psychiatrist. After the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Islamic authorities shut down her office because she had refused to wear the compulsory Islamic dress in the form of chador.
On Monday, February 21, 1994, about a month after a 16-year-old girl was shot to death in Tehran for wearing lipstick, Darabi immolated herself in one of the most well-known squares of Tehran while shouting "Death to Tyranny! Long live freedom! Long live Iran!"
In the US, her sister Parvin Darabi named the Dr. Homa Darabi Foundation in her memory. Parvin Darabi also co-authored a biography of Dr. Darabi called, Rage Against the Veil.