Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche have chopped off their hair to support women protesting Iran’s hijab policy.
Some of the Iranian demonstrators have publicly hacked off locks of hair at the protests, and the gesture has spread.to show solidarity with Iranian women have gone viral — from Turkish singer Melek Mosso on stage last week, to women in Lebanon and Syria, to Swedish lawmaker Abir Al-Sahlani in the halls of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. A museum in Rome is collecting locks of hair to present to the Iranian Embassy.
"For women to cut their hair in Iran is a form of protest ... a symbol to stand against the mandatory hijab," said Dorna Javan, an Iranian political scientist based in France and specialized in Iran. Such a visual gesture is a way for women across the world to rally around the Iranian women’s plight, she added.
"These women, these men are asking for our support. Their courage and their dignity obliges us," said a post with the video.PROTESTORS CLASH WITH REVOLUTIONARY GUARD IN NORTHERN IRAN, TORCH IRGC BASE: REPORTS
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