¡®I Was Also Stopped By Morality Police¡¯: Actor Strips In Support Of Iran's Anti-Hijab Protests
Elnaaz Norouzi donned a burqa at the beginning of the video before taking it off, along with several other clothing items.
Iranian actress Elnaaz Norouzi recently stated her support for the ongoing anti-hijab protests and disclosed a run-in with the dreaded morality police there. After Mahsa Amini passed away while in the morality police's custody, Iranian women went to the streets in protest.
The 22-year-old was arrested for allegedly violating Iran's stringent requirements for women's clothing. As a protest, Elnaaz Norouzi posted a video of herself in a semi-naked condition as a video on her Instagram account.
Elnaaz Norouzi donned a burqa at the beginning of the video before taking it off, along with several other clothing items.
She tagged it with, "Every woman, anywhere in the world, regardless of where she is from, should have the right to wear whatever she desires and when or wherever she desires to wear it."
Elnaaz spoke candidly with Siddharth Kannan about her confrontation with the moral police. She recalled,
"What happened to Mahsa Amini, that morality police captured her on the roads? This happened to me as well in Tehran. This happens to women every day. What happened to her could have happened to me as well or can happen to any other woman tomorrow. So we need to change something."
Until recently, when Elnaaz opened up about the incident on her Instagram account, she said only her family was aware of it.
Additionally, she described how she escaped the morality police after transferring her to an unidentified location.
She said, "I went to this 're-education center,' they call it so. I didn't know where it was; I didn't have the address. They take your phone. Mahsa must have resisted, and they must have hit her head so much that she went into a coma and died. (At the re-education centre), They take all of your information; they take your ID. They take pictures of you like you are in prison. They made me write my name and take pictures from all the angles in the clothes that you had on. Then they tell you, 'if we catch you again with the wrong type of clothing, it won't be this easy.'"
She revealed that she played it wise and had two phones, but she only gave them her German phone number, resulting in her release from prison in just one day.
She provided her family with her Iranian phone number so they might get help from their insider contacts to get her out.
Mahsa Amini, 22, was jailed by the morality police last month for failing to cover her hair with a hijab adequately.
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She was later declared dead a few days later. Iran saw widespread protests all around the country after she passed away three days after collapsing at a police station. In the demonstrations, nearly a hundred individuals died.
Additionally, the nation has temporarily banned the internet, so Elnaaz could only contact her family via text at night.
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