Belgian Foreign Minister Hajja Habib followed the example of an opposition deputy of Iranian origin who sat next to her during an accountability session for the government in the House of Representatives, and cut a lock of her hair, Thursday, in support of Iranian women, denouncing what she called “unbearable” oppression. For demonstrations practiced by the Iranian regime.
The French-speaking Belgian minister, who comes from an Algerian family, grabbed a pair of scissors and took this initiative, saying that she was “shocked” at the death of Mahsa Amini last month in Tehran.
And Belgian MP Daria Safaei, who was sitting next to the minister and cut a lock of her hair, posted on her Twitter account, a video of the incident and commented on it, saying: “I cut my hair in the Belgian parliament to draw attention to the killing of Mahsa Amini and all the victims of the Iranian revolution,” and stressed her support for the people. Iranian.
The death of the Iranian young woman, Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by the morality police in Tehran, sparked a wave of anger in Iran and abroad that reached all over the world.
The most prominent way to express this anger has become “hair cutting”, as many women cut their hair in public during demonstrations that continue to this day in the country, raising the slogan “Woman, life, freedom.”
It was not only Iranian women, but many women around the world posted videos of themselves cutting their hair, in solidarity with the protesters.
Before the Belgian minister of Algerian origin, Swedish member of the European Parliament, Abeer Al-Sahlani, joined the ride and cut her hair during a speech before the Council of the European Union, in solidarity with the anti-government demonstrations in Iran.
“Until Iran is liberated, our anger will be greater than the oppressors. Until the women of Iran are liberated, we will stand with you,” Abeer al-Sahlani, an Iraqi-born, said from the podium of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday.
She then grabbed a pair of scissors and repeated the demonstration’s famous slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” while cutting her hair, then left the stage.
It is noteworthy that the young woman, Mahsa Amini, who hails from the Kurdish city of Saqqaz in northwestern Iran, died on September 16 (2022), three days following her arrest by the morality police, and then transferred to a hospital in Tehran.