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Iranian women are sharing videos of themselves cutting their hair to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who died on Friday after spending three days in a coma.
Amini was visiting Tehran, the capital of Iran, to visit her family when she was arrested by the Gasht-e Ershad , also known as Iran's so-called “morality police.” Under Iranian law, which is enforced by these special police units, women must cover their hair and neck with aIt's understood that Iran's morality police accused Mahsa Amini of violating this law, before arresting her and taking her to a detention centre to be “educated.
Since Amini's death, protests have erupted across Iran, with women posting TikToks of them cutting their hair, burning their hijabs in public, and shouting, "Women, life, freedom" during flash protests.
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