The death of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini, after her arrest by the moral police in Tehran, has sparked a wave of anger in Iran and abroad that has reached the whole world.
The most obvious way to express this anger has become the “haircut”, as many women cut their hair in public during the demonstrations that continue to this day in the country, raising the slogan “Woman, life, freedom”.
It wasn’t just 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 MEP Abeer Al-Sahlani joined the race and cut her hair during a speech before the Council of the European Union, in solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Iran .
Then she grabbed a pair of scissors and repeated the famous rally slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” while cutting her hair, then left the stage.
Interestingly, the young woman, Mahsa Amini, originally from the Kurdish city of Saqqaz in northwestern Iran, died on September 16 (2022), three days after her arrest by the moral police, and was then transferred to a hospital in Tehran.
