The first young woman to take off her hijab in public climbed on an electricity box at a busy junction in Tehran before removing her headscarf and holding it out over the traffic. She was arrested immediately and held for 31 days. Her actions were copied at the same spot by a wave of others protesting against the law obliging Iranian women to wear the headscarf in public.
Known as the Girls of Enghelab Street, 29 more were arrested before Tehran’s city council erected a pointed cover on top of the electricity box to stop them climbing on it. [The Times (£)] Read more
