On December 27, 2017, Vida Movahed, a 31-year-old Iranian woman, stands on Enghelab Street (Revolution Street) in Tehran for nearly an hour, standing on an electrical distribution pole, after removing her headscarf, which she hung on the end of a stick like a banner. She was imprisoned for a month and released after a massive international campaign. It was the beginning of a wave of protests against the compulsory wearing of the hijab, a symbol of the oppression of a regime for more than 40 year