Hijab Protest: Actor Elnaaz Norouzi Strips on Camera
Actor Elnaaz Norouzi, in a video joined the protest by stripping several layers of clothes to make a point about what she wants to wear and no one can stop her.
You all are aware that there are protests going on in Iran as shockingly, the women who don’t follow Iran's strict dress code are forcefully put into one of the units green-and-white vans for a lecture on how to wear their headscarf and are often brutally beaten. Many Iranian women have faced far worse. One of them was Mahsa Amini, 22, who was picked up by the morality police in Tehran on 16th September and declared dead three days later. Her death, which activists say was caused by a blow to the head, has set off a wave of protests in which women have burnt their hijab headscarves. ISH News had released news about it. The protests are still going on and now, Elnaaz Norouzi, the Iranian born actor known for her work in the Netflix series Sacred Games starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Saif Ali Khan, has joined the massive protest by women for their right to wear anything they want. Norouzi, in a video posted on her Instagram account, joined the protest by stripping several layers of clothes to make a point about what she wants to wear and no one can stop her.
She wrote, "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. No man nor any other woman has the right to judge her or ask her to dress otherwise." Before she started a career in acting, Norouzi had been working for more than 10 years as an international model for brands like Dior, Lacoste and Le Coq Sportive and several others. She was trained in Persian traditional dance. In India, she has been learning the Kathak dance. What do you think about actor Elnaaz Norouzi joining the protest? Do you think it will help the protestors to reach their objectives? Do mention your thoughts in the comment section below.
