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Hind Elhinnawy, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University

Iran: undressing protest shows how women are still fighting even as morality laws get harsher

Ahou Daryaei was violently arrested after stripping down to her underwear in protest against Iran's strict hijab laws. Screenshot Instagram @yasemin_goksu_official

More than two years have passed since a young woman called Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested in Iran for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly. Her death sparked mass protests throughout Iran against the country’s ruling theocracy.

The fight of Iranian women for freedom and bodily autonomy now rages on. Ahou Daryaei, a 30-year-old French language student at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University, has become the latest symbol of this resistance.

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