Thousands of young people have demonstrated in the streets and in educational centers in Iran, removing their veils and even burning them in public, while cutting their hair and insulting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the other members of the government.
Last Tuesday, October 4, during the debate on the protests in Iran, the Swedish deputy Abir Al-Sahlani He cut his hair at the Parliament building in the French city of Strasbourg.
to the cry of “Women, life, freedom!” reported the death of the young Masha Believe at the hands of the Moral Police on September 16 in Tehran, the capital of Iran.
“The peoples and citizens of the European Union demand a categorical and immediate cessation of all violence against women and men in Iran,” Thus began his speech.
The cutting of locks of hair has become a symbol of the protests in Iran.
There are many women in the world who have done this practice. Global demonstrations have seen women from Greece, Turkey, Italy or Argentina following the example.
In addition, in the last two days a new front has been opened in the protests: college girls and high school students.
The protest of the Swedish deputy and thousands of other women
“Woman, life, freedom”, female students shouted at a school in the city of Sanandaj, in Iranian Kurdistan, as they waved their veils, according to an unverified video released by activists.
In the city of Karaj, in the province of Alborz, jyoung students threw their veils at a teacher.
“We do not want the Islamic Republic” y “Let the clerics be lost”, yell high school students in other videos.
In cities like Tehran, protesters have marched through the streets, while car horns sounded in support, according to videos in which it can be seen that these are Iranian streets, the license plates are from the country and the accent is from the area.
These new protests are quieter than the pitched battles of days gone by, but if a tragedy were to happen in one of the schools, the consequences would be unpredictable.
The Swedish MEP Abir Al-Sahlani has cut her hair in the middle of the European Parliament in solidarity with Iranian women pic.twitter.com/RA7Rrsht3O
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