Mandana Karimi stages solo protest in Mumbai for women’s rights in Iran
The actor shared a 17-minute-long video of her solo protest on social media site. Mandana captioned the video and wrote, "For Iran, for my mother’s tears, for my brother’s broken face and heart, for sleepless nights, for freedom for life.”
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Mumbai, October 07: The ongoing Anti-Hijab revolution in Iran has reached India's shores as an Iranian actor staged a lone protest in Maharashtra's capital Mumbai. TV actress and former Big Boss contestant, Mandana Karimi, held a solo protest in solidarity with the protestors back in her home country against Hijabi Police.
The actor shared a 17-minute-long video of her solo protest on social media site. Mandana captioned the video and wrote, "For Iran, for my mother’s tears, for my brother’s broken face and heart, for sleepless nights, for freedom for life.”
In a video Mandana can be seen holding a place card that spoke about the atrocities faced by women of the country.Karimi stood there for three hours, speaking to people and telling them about the situation in Iran currently, various reports stated.
Shockingly the Bollywood actors have denied support to her with varying degrees of indifference and excuses.
Hours after the posting the video on social media Mandana Karimi made her social media account private. It is being said the she has been pressurised over the protest.
For unreserved, a massive anti-hijab revolution has broken out in Iran after women came out in large numbers to protest against the death of a 22-year-old named Mahsa Amini who lost her life in custody after being detained by the official moral police, formally known as the Gasht-e Ershad (Guidance Patrol). The furious women protesters were seen cutting their hair and burning hijabs in a bid to fight back against the mandatory veiling of women. The women have united against what they say is a gender apartheid regime and are demanding their basic rights.