Iranian women cut hair and remove head scarves in protest of Mahsa Amini’s death

Tehran: In Iran, massive anti-hijab protest continue after the death of a 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini lost her life in custody after being detained by the official moral police. Her death sparked protests in the capital and western Iran, where two people were reportedly killed in clashes with riot police yesterday.

Video footages of the protests show the furious women protesters seen cutting their hair and burning hijabs in a bid to fight back against the mandatory veiling of women. The women have united against what they say is a gender apartheid regime and are



demanding their basic rights. Meanwhile, Tehran's police chief says, the death of a woman in custody was an unfortunate incident and it should not be repeated.

Ms Amini, an ethnic Kurd who was from the western city of Saqez in Kurdistan province, died in hospital on Friday after spending three days in a coma.

She was detained outside a metro station in Tehran on last Tuesday by the moral police. According to witnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van that took her to a detention centre.