Actress Priyanka Chopra expressed her support for the protesting women in Iran. News from ANI. Protests are ongoing across Iran over the death of Kurdish girl Masa Amini in police custody. Many world celebrities have already expressed support for Iranian women in the ongoing protests. This time Priyanka Chopra also expressed support.
Priyanka Chopra wrote on her Instagram, “Masa Amini’s life was brutally taken by Iran’s policy police for not wearing hijab ‘properly’. Women around the world, including Iran, are rising to protest his death. They are making noise. Cutting their hair in public. They are protesting in different ways.
Priyanka Chopra said, the voice that wakes up after being kept silent for ages, explodes like a volcano. They (Iranian women) will not stop. They cannot be stopped.
Addressing the Iranian women, Priyanka Chopra said, ‘I am surprised to see your courage, to know your intentions. It is not easy to literally challenge patriarchal institutions, to risk one’s life to fight for one’s rights. But you brave women are doing this every day.
Priyanka Chopra has called on the Iranian authorities to listen to the protesters. Requested to understand their problem.
The country’s policy police arrested Masa on September 13 for violating the hijab policy. Masa died in police custody on September 16.
Massa’s death sparked protests in Iran. Many people have been killed in this ongoing protest. Hundreds of people were arrested.