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Iran protests: How India's Karnataka hijab and Iran's Mahsa Amini protests are not the same | Homeland 

22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested, beaten up and later found dead, in the custody of Iran’s Morality Police. Allegations against her - Not of terrorism. but for not adhering to strict, conservative Hijab law in Iran. Viral images of women burning their hijabs, cutting hair to defy of one of the most entrenched diktats in that country. Some prominent voices sought to draw a parallel between the violent crackdown, murders in Iran, to a democratic legal fight over hijab in Karnataka’s educational institutions… In this episode of Homeland, Pooja Shali tells you why there's no similarity between hijab fight in Iran and Karnataka #homeland

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