Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe, an Anglo-Iranian national who was jailed in Iran for six years, filmed himself cutting his own hair to support anti-government protests in Iran.
When she cut her hair off, she named Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of Iran’s ethics police sparked a wave of protests that spread to more than 80 cities. The protests quickly evolved into the most serious challenge Iran’s Shia clerical establishment has faced in years.
Amini was arrested for allegedly violating a strict law requiring women to cover their hair with a headscarf or headscarf.
Protesting women were filmed burning their headscarves and cutting their hair, which activists say is an ancient Persian symbol of protest.
At the end of her message, Zaghari-Radcliffe said: “For my mother, for my daughter, for the fear of solitary confinement, for the women of my country, for freedom.”
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