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The Girls of Enghelab protests (Persian: دختران انقلاب) are protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran, part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement. The protests were inspired by Vida Movahed, an Iranian woman known as the Girl of Enghelab Street (Persian: دختر خیابان انقلاب), who stood in the crowd on a utility box on Enghelab Street (Revolution Street) in ...
The march was originally intended to celebrate the International Women's Day, but transformed into massive protests against the changes taking place in women's rights during the Iranian revolution, specifically the introduction of mandatory hijab (veiling), which had been announced the day before. The protests lasted for six days, from 8 March ...
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement launched in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. The movement demands the end of compulsory hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women ...
An Iranian woman was arrested after reportedly stripping down to her undergarments to protest an alleged assault by security forces for not following strict hijab laws.. The woman was reportedly ...
Me, as a woman, can scare the whole regime,” activist Masih Alinejad says of Iran’s theocratic political order. Iran's movement against forced hijab goes viral [Video] Skip to main content
Protests led by women have erupted across Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, a Kurdish woman who was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was detained by Iran's "morality police," reportedly ...
She also reposted a video showing this woman in underwear protesting on campus. [21] On 5 November 2024, hundreds of Iranians and French people gathered in the evening in the center of Paris, in front of the Pantheon near the Sorbonne University, chanting slogans and giving speeches to support resistance of Iranian women against oppression.
In one video, an unveiled woman is tackled by a man in police uniform while standing atop a tall box, waving her white scarf at passers by. [75] On 8 March 2018, another video went viral, this one of three hijab-less Iranian women singing a feminist fight song in honor of International Women's Day and feminist issues in Tehran's subway . [76]