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Muslim women remove their veils and cut their hair to protest Iran's hijab rules following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Islamic morality police from Iran on suspicion of violating the wearing of the hijab. rules, the reports say.
Tehran police told her family that she died of a "sudden" heart attack, but her family says she had no known heart conditions, and witnesses said they saw police beating Amini inside a truck. Muslim women are now cutting their hair and hijab on TikTok in protest.
In Saghez, the young woman's hometown, the crowd launched slogans against the authorities and stoned public buildings, social networks burned over the weekend before the agents whose action, one more, caused the girl's death.
Even the law and faith seem to be in crisis as a result of this death in a country where women seem to be less than nothing and are subjugated. Difficult to find someone in Iran who believes the official version of the young woman's death
Hard to find someone in Iran who believes the official version of the young woman's death. The images on official television of a girl, supposedly her, who collapses in the police station without being touched, seem like a crude montage.The truth is that the young woman entered the police station on her own feet and came out dead. Her family and her men and women who demonstrate for her accuse the agents of having tortured her to death.
Who is Mahsa Amini?
Mahsa Amini is a 22-year-old woman from the Kurdish province of Iran. She was in Tehran with her brother when she was reprimanded by Iran's morality police, formally known as the 'Guidance Police' or Gasht-e Ershad, for her "improper" wearing of the hijab.
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The morality police said she was wearing her headscarf or hijab, too loosely. Iran requires women to wear the hijab so that it completely covers their hair.
Miss Amini collapsed at a police station and died three days later. Iranian police say she died of a heart attack and was not mistreated, but her family has disputed that point.
Why do women cut their hair?
Women have played a prominent role in recent demonstrations, waving and burning their veils, and some have publicly cut their hair in direct defiance of clerical leaders.
A wave of women around the world have uploaded videos to social media, cutting their hair in solidarity with Iranian women, and protests have taken place in several countries.
Why are women burning the hijab?
Images and videos of women in various provinces of Iran burning their hijab in solidarity with Ms. Amini are being posted on social media. Some women are even cutting off strands of hair in protest at the regime's requirement to cover up.
Professor Akbarzadeh said that women in Iran are sending a clear message. "They're saying they've had enough. How much can they take? How much blood can be spilled? Enough is enough," he said.
In Iran, there is no legal right to protest against the government. As such, these women could be fined, imprisoned or mistreated for their actions on the streets.
Demonstrations over the death of Amini
Likewise, Mohsen Mansouri, governor of Tehran, pointed out that three foreign citizens were arrested among the protesters.
After five nights of street protests, Radio France International (RFI) underlines, the police used tear gas and made arrests to disperse the crowd that came to gather up to a thousand people.
For her part, Behzad Rahimi, a Kurdish deputy for the Saghez and Baneh region, pointed out in her speech in Parliament that the aforementioned Moral Police has always raised concerns and stress for Iranian women due to acts similar to those that happened with Mahsa Amini.
She added that it is necessary to review the methods of this security unit and listen to the voice of the people of Iran and society in general.
Finally, the president of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, affirmed that Iranian laws will be modified to regulate the actions of the police elements of the Morale Police, as well as transform the methods used to avoid these "dramas" in the future.
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