Men in Iran have been wearing hijabs in a show of solidarity with their wives and female family members. Their pictures are being sent to Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist who is living in New York, in response to her #meninhijab campaign launched earlier this week.
Women have been forced to cover their hair in public since the Islamic Revoloution of 1979. This law is strictly enforced by morality police and women deemed to be in contravention face fines and even imprisonment.
Alinejad has led the campaign against enforced hijab with her My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page and thousands of women living inside Iran have shared their photos of the moment they defied enforced hijab.
"The reason I participated in this new #MenInHijab campaign is that I wanted to offer my own support to the women of Iran who have long been forced to wear the veil.
"Our women have been obliged to wear the veil for more than thirty years whereas mine was only a momentary experience. This is the least of what men can do to show their support to women, especially within the context of Iran where the Islamic Republic constantly propagates the notion that a man’s honour depends on his wife’s veil.
"I simply wanted to show that my understanding of honour has got nothing to do with compulsion or forcefully imposing a dress code on women."
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