Masih Alinejad
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Iran protests: At least a dozen people currently at 'risk of execution'
Fp Staff •Demonstrations have swept Iran for nearly three months since Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for an alleged breach of the country's strict hijab dress code for women
How Iranian women are shaming Western politicians for emboldening tyrannical regime
Fp Staff •Journalist Masih Alinejad tweeted the video of the French artists cutting their hair and demanded the western female politicians who wore hijab in front of Islamic Republic officials to do the same & make an apology
Journalist Masih Alinejad invites feminists, freedom fighters around the world to support Iranian women
Fp Staff •Unrest has spread across the country as women burned their headscarves to protest laws that force women to wear the hijab. Seven people are reported to have been killed, and the government has almost completely shut down the internet
Personal is Political: Masih Alinejad, the woman whose hair fuelled the anti-hijab sentiment in Iran
Fp Explainers •It was a picture of Masih Alinejad’s hair in the wind that propelled Iranian women to let their hair down years ago. Now, the Iranian-American journalist is giving voice to the anti-hijab protests in the Islamic Republic through her social media
#MyStealthyFreedom: Unique online protest against compulsory hijab in Iran
Fp Staff •Women in Iran are protesting against compulsory headscarf in a unique way by sharing photographs of their uncovered heads through My Stealthy Freedom, an online social movement by Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
Iranian veil site gets half million 'likes' and state TV rebuke
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