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Grief, protest and power: Why Iranian women are cutting their hair-CNN reports

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Pictured is Mahsa Amini

Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN— A weeping Iranian woman is seen kneeling by her dead brother’s coffin as she slashes through her hair with a pair of scissors. Her relatives wail for justice as she tosses strands onto the coffin.

They were grieving for 36-year-old Javad Heydari, who was fatally shot last week at one of the anti-government protests that have gripped Iran.

Images like these have galvanized women across the world to join Iranian women protesting the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. She died in hospital on September 16, three days after being pulled off the streets of Tehran by morality police and taken to a “re-education center” for lessons in modesty. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT CNN.COM

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