'I won't allow [another] one of my compatriots' names to become a new hashtag on Twitter.' MsReads via Allure_magazine
continue across Iran following the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, a singular image has come to represent the movement: women cutting their hair in defiance of the country's morality police.
It's what led the woman, who is 18 years old, to pick up a pair of scissors and begin cutting her hair. In a video she uploaded to Twitter, the woman holds back tears while she silently snips at her shoulder-length hair. Though Iran’s protests began over the death of Amini, who was arrested while visiting family in Tehran, the woman who spoke toShe mentions two other high-profile killings that sparked demonstrations in Iran: Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot in 2009 near a protest against a disputed presidential election, and Satar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed while in custody for criticizing the government on Facebook in 2012.
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