Iranian Protester Dies of Self-Inflicted Burns
An Iranian woman who set herself on fire in London last week to protest a French roundup of Iranian exiles has died.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran said Nada Hassani, a computer programmer raised in Canada, died with her parents at her side. Hospital officials confirmed the death.
Hassani, 25, set herself ablaze outside the French Embassy in London after French police swooped on the NCRI’s military arm, the Moujahedeen Khalq, over possible links to terrorism. The NCRI is a coalition of groups opposed to Islamic rule in Iran.
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