This is the moment women and girls cut their hair and set fire to a hijab in the middle of Bristol today (Sunday) in solidarity with protesters campaigning for greater freedoms in Iran, following the death of a woman there last week.
There have been huge protests, riots and uprisings across Iran in the past week, following the death in police custody of a young Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini. She was detained by the so-called ‘morality police’ in Iran for not correctly wearing a hijab, or Islamic headscarf, and died in a police station.
Now those protests have taken place in Bristol too - with organisers and protesters saying they wanted to show solidarity with their relatives and friends in Iran, and women all over the world.
