Title: Tāniyā va dukhtarān-i Khiyābān-i Inqilāb
Description: Girls of Enghelab Street is a series of protests against compulsory hijab in Iran. The protests were inspired by Vida Movahed, an Iranian woman known as the Girl of Enghelab Street who stood in the crowd on a utility box in the Enghelab Street Revolution Street of Tehran on 27 December 2017, She tied her hijab a white headscarf to a stick and waved it to the crowd as a flag. She was arrested on that day and was released temporarily on bail a month later on 28 January 2018. Some people believe that Movahed's action was based on Masih Alinejad's campaign for White Wednesdays, a protest movement that the presenter at VOA Persian Television started in early 2017. Other women later re-enacted her protest and posted photos of their actions on social media. These women are described as the Girls of Enghelab Street (The Girls of Revolution Street in English sources). The author ties the actions of heroism and courage of these girls to the action of Tanya Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, a young pioneer in the Soviet resistance against the Nazis, who was captured, interrogated and tortured, then hanged by the Germans.
Subjects: Women, Social conditions, Human rights, Democracy, Clothing and dress, Hijab (Islamic clothing), Women political prisoners, Political prisoners, Femmes, Conditions sociales, Droits de l'homme (Droit international), Ḥijāb, Prisonnières politiques, Prisonniers politiques
Places: Iran
People: Zoi︠a︡ Kosmodemʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ (1923-1941)
Time periods: 21st century, 21e siècle