Iran has had over a month of anti-hijab demonstrations. Women in Iran are protesting in the streets over being forced to wear the headscarf. Against this backdrop, a video of a topless woman is being widely shared on social media linking it to the anti-hijab protests in Iran. In the video, the woman is seen giving a speech among a crowd of people.
In fact, a 22-year-old girl, Mahsa Amini, allegedly died in police custody in Iran. Mahsa was arrested by Iran’s religious police on September 13, 2022, for not wearing the hijab properly. He died in police custody three days later. Since then, there has been a tremendous demonstration against the hijab in Iran.
The video is shared on Facebook with the caption, “हिजाब विरोधी विरोध अब ईरान में एक टॉपलेस विरोध में बदल गया। हिजाब हटाने से लेकर हिजाब फेंकने तक, हिजाब जलाने से लेकर हिजाब से जूते साफ करने तक! चेहरे के खुलने से लेकर स्तनों के खुलने से लेकर कमर के खुलने तक! यह अब सीधे अथाह से कल बिना कपड़ों के होगा! अधिक आने के लिए प्रतीक्षा करें. ईरानी नायिकाएं विश्व मुस्लिम महिलाओं को हिजाब से आजादी, बुर्का से बारबाडी डोमेन तक ले जाएंगी”
(English translation: Anti-Hijab protests now turned into a topless protest in Iran. From removing hijab to throwing hijab, from burning hijab to cleaning shoes with hijab! From facial opening to boobs opening to waist opening! It will now be straight from bottomless tomorrow without clothes! Wait for more to come. Iranian heroines will move world Muslim women from hijab to freedom, burqa to Barbadi domain)
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim and found it to be MISLEADING.
Using the InVid Tool, we extracted keyframes from the viral video and performed a Reverse Image Search. This search directed us to the verified Twitter handle of Radio Zamaneh which carried the same viral video on October 1, 2022. The caption can be translated to the English language from Persian, “The protest movement of Niloufer Fuladi, an artist and one of the girls of Elkhebal Street, in protest against the mandatory hijab and the murder of Mehsa Amini by the government in Amsterdam. The Netherlands October 1, 2022.”
حرکت اعتراضی نیلوفر فولادی، هنرمند و از دختران خیابان انقلاب در اعتراض به حجاب اجباری و قتل حکومتی مهسا امینی در آمستردام
هلند ۱ اکتبر ۲۰۲۲#مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/JkgL2O0KvX
— Radio Zamaneh (@RadioZamaneh) October 1, 2022
A journalist for “Radio Zamaneh” also tweeted some pictures of the protest that took place in Amsterdam on 1 October. In some of these pictures, the woman in the viral video can also be seen.
تجمع گسترده ایرانیان ساکن هلند در اعتراض به کشته شدن مهسا امینی و در حمایت از اعتراض‌های سراسری‌ایران
۱ اکتبر ۲۰۲۲#مهسا_امینی #MahsaAmini pic.twitter.com/hf0Cgi8XZ2
— Farzad Seifikaran (@FSeifikaran) October 1, 2022
Protests are going on not only in Iran but in many countries regarding the death of Mahsa Amini and the hijab. This includes many countries including Britain, the Netherlands, and America.
There have also been reports on Iranian news websites about Nilofer Steely going topless in Amsterdam. According to these reports, poet, model and feminist Nilofer Steely is an Iranian woman who lives in Amsterdam. She left Iran a few years ago.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the viral video does not show anti-hijab protests in Iran.
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