As Iran’s regime faces its biggest protests in recent history, a new normal is sweeping across the country’s urban centres. Teenage girls and older women are increasingly taking to the streets without their headscarf, or hijab, bravely defying the mandatory requirement to cover their heads in public.
The death of Mahsa Amini, who was allegedly beaten in police custody for the inappropriate wearing of her headscarf, has prompted the biggest wave of dissent against strict religious dress codes since the turbulent early years of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Women and girls say they are determined to confront a ruling theocracy that once seemed unbreakable. The protests continued this weekend in city centres and university campuses more than 40 days after Amini’s death and even
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