In Iran, women who appear without a headscarf in public are subjected to lashings and jail, as demanded by Sharia law. Masih Alinejad comes from Iran but lives in exile...
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The ayatollahs hold him in a notorious prison as retaliation for my activism against compulsory hijab. As the Trump administration speaks of placing “maximum pressure”...
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France24: #MyCameraIsMyWeapon campaign takes on Iran’s mandatory hijab law
An online movement encourages women to upload images of themselves defying Iran’s compulsory veil law. Plus: Filmmaker Michael Moore has a new politically-charged...
“Compulsory hijab is not a small piece of cloth. The Islamic Republic knows this very well. By fighting against compulsory hijab, we’re actually fighting...
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ABC News: Activist Masih Alinejad fights against the compulsory hijab in Iran
“If you want to be a free woman in Iran, you have to break the law every day,” says Iranian activist Masih Alinejad. She speaks to Matter of Fact about her campaign...
CBS News : Masih Alinejad on “being a product of the Iranian Revolution” and the treatment of women in Iran Masih Alinejad, a prominent Iranian journalist...
Iranian activist and author Masih Alinejad on Trump, treatment of women in Iran and her memoir Masih Alinejad is a prominent Iranian journalist and activist, and the...
As she settles into a corner of a roomy sofa in her Brooklyn home, tucking her bare feet under tanned, birdlike legs, the charismatic, chattering 41-year-old woman with...
By Anne-Marie Bissada In Iran, it has been obligatory for women to wear a head scarf, or hijab, since 1983, in the wake of the 1979 revolution. Since then, women have...
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