The hashtag, #MenInHijab, has gone viral after some men in Iran decided to speak up against the law that makes wearing a hijab compulsory.
In 2014, Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad started a campaign to give women the freedom to choose their own clothes. Called My Stealthy Freedom, the movement centres around women being forced to wear hijab by law.
Flouting the law in Iran can incur punishment in the form of imprisonment or lashes by the Gashte Ershad ( literally, moral police).
What Masih didn't know, however, was that what campaigning in print cannot do anymore, a hashtag can. Once #MenInHijab started, there has been no looking back. Some men have taken to the movement with much enthusiasm and are showing solidarity with their wives, sisters, and mothers, by wearing a headscarf themselves.
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