Ameneh Malek-Afzali

Symbol of courage
Date of Birth: 1961
Place of Birth: Kyakula village in Ghaemshahr
Education: High school student (senior year)
Testimony on: 18 July 1981
Place of martyrdom: Babol
Method of execution: shot to death
Ameneh Malek-Afzali was born in 1961 in a village near Kyakula in Ghaemshahr to a family of farmers. She spent her childhood in an underprivileged family and worked in the harsh conditions of paddy fields. Ameneh always wished that one day she could do something so that the kind and hardworking villagers could live in peace and happiness. Her pure love for her people guided her to the path of resistance against the Iranian regime’s dictatorship. Hens, she joined other PMOI supporters and began her political activities against the mullahs' regime. One day in high school, when everyone had gone to class, she picked a color bucket and wrote the following sentence on the  wall:...