Powerful pictures and videos from around the world have emerged in support of Mahsa Amini, the 23-year-old who passed away while in the care of the morality police, as protests grow in intensity in Iran and parts of Europe.
Details of such incidents
One such potent gesture was seen on camera and has since received a lot of social media attention. The sister of one of the several protestors who have perished in Iran’s anti-Hijab uprising is shown in the video cutting off her hair during his funeral.
The video, which was captured at a man’s burial, shows the protester’s sister sobbing uncontrollably as she removes her hair in front of her brother’s body while using scissors. She tears and laments the loss of her sibling as she aggressively throws hair fragments onto the casket. She is surrounded by other women who can be heard crying.
Iranians rejected the judiciary’s warnings and remained in the streets for a tenth straight night on Sunday in protest of the young Kurdish woman’s death.
Iran has also organized sizable rallies in support of the hijab and traditional values
Since the turmoil started, at least 41 individuals have perished, predominantly demonstrators but also security personnel from the Islamic republic. The real number, according to some accounts, is greater. The death toll reached at least 57, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR), an organization based in Oslo, on Sunday evening. However, IHR highlighted that because of persistent internet outages, it was become harder to confirm deaths in a situation where the women-led rallies had extended to other towns.
Rights organizations claim that during Iran’s largest demonstrations in over three years, security forces opened fire with live ammunition and birdshot while demonstrators threw rocks, set fire to police vehicles, and destroyed government buildings.
Women who burned their hijabs and shaved their hair were among the demonstrators. To the cheers of the masses who were chanting “zan, Zindagi, Azadi” or “woman, life, freedom,” some people danced close to big bonfires. There have been demonstrations overseas in support of Iranian women in Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, Madrid, and New York, among other locations. Iran has also organized sizable rallies in support of the hijab and traditional values.