Mahsa Mogoi

مهسا موگویی

2022 · 4 years ago

Taken: 22 September 2022
Age: 19 years old
From: Fuladshahr, Isfahan

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Their life

Mahsa was from Golshahr, near Najafabad in Isfahan province. After high school she was studying hard for the entrance exam in dentistry. She was an athlete too, in taekwondo, fitness and track and field, and had won 108 medals across the three.

She dreamed of becoming a doctor and giving part of her income so that people in need could get treatment, and of one day winning an Olympic medal for her country. A person close to her said she could not bear to see people so poor in a land so rich, and wanted everyone to live in prosperity, freedom and safety.

How the regime took them

On 21 September 2022 Mahsa joined the protest at the B5 junction in Fuladshahr and set fire to her headscarf in front of the agents. Plainclothes men with batons went for her; she fought them off and got away, but they filmed her and threatened to kill her.

The next night, 22 September, as she walked home through an alley away from the protest, a Peugeot Pars without number plates swerved in front of her and men inside shot her with a shotgun at close range. Agents later forced her father to say on camera that the state had not killed her.