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Hijab Protest: Urvashi Rautela 'Chops Off Hair' In Support Of Iranian Women

Actress Urvashi Rautela, who had compared herself to꧅ late Mahsa Amini, has now shared pictures of herself 'chopping off hair' in support of Iranian women protesting against Mahsa's death.

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Actress Urvashi Rautel🍎a, who had compared herself to late Mahsa Amini, has now shared picꦉtures of herself 'chopping off hair' in support of Iranian women protesting against Mahsa's death.

Urvashi 🌸took to Instgram and posted a note on Amini's death. She was see🀅n sporting a blue kurta as she sat on the floor as a man cut off her hair with scissors. Her back was towards the camera.

Alongside the post, she wrote about the protest💮s in Iran, feminism and the death of Ankita Bhandari, who was killed in Uttarakhand last month.

"Chopped my hair off𓃲! Cutting my hair in support of Iranian women and girls, who have been killed in protests at the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by Iranian morality police and for all the girls. And for 19-year-old girl, my Ankita Bhandari from Uttarakhand," Urvashi wrote.

She added: "Around the world women are uniting in protest against the Iranian government by cutti🐭ng their hair. Respect women. A global symbol for women's revolutio... hair is seen as a symbol of the beauty of women. By chopping off hair in public, women are showing that they don't care about society's beauty standards and won't let anything or anyone decide how they dress up, behave or live.

"Once women coꦓme together and consider one woman's issue an issue of the entire womankind, 𒁃feminism will see a new vigour."

Twen🔜ty two-year-old Mahsa Amini was brutally killed by the "morality police" of Iran for showing a bit of her hair, not adhering to the s🦂trict dress code laws. It sparked nationwide protests.