{"id":387521,"date":"2022-09-27T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=387521"},"modified":"2022-09-27T14:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T08:59:58","slug":"anti-hijab-protest-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/anti-hijab-protest-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian women dance on streets, chop hair and burn their hijabs in protest against dress code | WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amid the massive anti-hijab protest in Iran, mainly led by the women, an Iranian woman on Monday was seen chopping her hair and burnt her hijab in front of thousands of protestors in the country&#8217;s capital Tehran. Her video went viral on the internet where the woman took the extreme step to show her agitation against the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa and the hijab laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The viral clip has been shared by a Twitter user with a long caption under which he wrote that in Kerman&#8217;s Azadi Square tonight, a woman sits on top of a utility box, takes off her headscarf, and cuts her hair as people chant death to the dictator on the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read Also<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/jharkhand-witchcraft-human-excreta\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/top-news\/jharkhand-witchcraft-human-excreta\/\"> Jharkhand: 4 family members forced to consume human excreta on suspicion of witchcraft, six arrested<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Take a look at the viral of Iran where women chopped her hair, burnt her hijab and chanted death to the dictator<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In Kerman&#39;s Azadi Square tonight, a woman sits on top of a utility box, takes off her headscarf and cuts her hair as people chant &quot;death to the dictator&quot; on the fifth night of protests in Iran over the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MahsaAmini<\/a> in custody of morality police.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3zZuZkkom1\">pic.twitter.com\/3zZuZkkom1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1572259995235893252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the almost two-minute-long clip, it can be seen that a lady protestor was standing on top of a utility box, was being helped by a man to chop off her hair, and burnt her hijab. The clip also shows thousands of protestors standing on the ground, cheering the lady in order to boost her and keep on chanting death to the dictator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight in the city of Yazd, two women standing on top of a car throw their hijabs in the air while protesters cheer and clap, on the 11th night of unrest in Iran over the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MahsaAmini?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MahsaAmini<\/a>, 22, in morality police custody and a near total internet shutdown.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D9%85%D9%87%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u0645\u0647\u0633\u0627_\u0627\u0645\u06cc\u0646\u06cc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aqaxLhtX4C\">pic.twitter.com\/aqaxLhtX4C<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1574488010980311054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another video, which went viral on the internet Monday shows two women from the city of Yazd, standing on top of a car throwing their hijabs in the air while protesters cheer and clap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ever since the videos were shared on the internet, it has gained millions of views and likes in no time. People across the globe are also bombarded by the comment section just to applaud the courage shown by women in Iran. One of the users wrote that people need to come out and fight against the dictatorial government that has been violating the rights of women. Another user wrote that this will be the end of the dictatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, massive anti-hijab protests erupted in several cities across Iran in response to the death of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini who died in the custody of the country&#8217;s morality police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/bengaluru-man-death-police-brutality\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/latest-news\/bengaluru-man-death-police-brutality\/\">Bengaluru woman says son died due to police injuring him in his\u00a0private\u00a0parts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/delhi-high-court-aap\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/delhi-high-court-aap\/\">Delhi High Court asks AAP to remove defamatory posts against LG Vinay Saxena<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the massive anti-hijab protest in Iran, mainly led by the women, an Iranian woman on Monday was seen chopping her hair and burnt her hijab in front of thousands of protestors in the country&#8217;s capital Tehran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":387529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Iranian women dance on streets, chop hair and burn their hijabs in protest against dress code | WATCH\n\n#MahsaAmini\n#iran\n#antihijabprotest","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[125714],"tags":[143383,121522,143384,844,143385,143382,143386],"yst_prominent_words":[33897,21921,25430,39770,7396,4168,19792,4149,4331],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/09\/27125953\/126834304_iranrtr1909a5512a6ebf64b7b4bd942ce3698a01896742eddd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387521"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=387521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=387521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->