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The "Girl of Enghelab Street" was released from prison
Vida Movahed, who is known as the “Girl of Enghelab Street” for her protest against the mandatory hijab in Iran, was released from prison on Sunday.
She was arrested twice for protesting mandatory hijab since January of 2018. She spent 8 months in prison after her second arrest.
In December of 2017, Movahed stood on an electricity box in Enghelab street of Tehran and tied her scarf to a stick. She was arrested after and no one knew her name or her whereabouts for some time. She became known as “the Girl of Enghelab (Revolution) Street” in social media. Her protest led to a series of similar acts of protests by Iranian women across Tehran and the country.
After her second act of protest in Enghelab Square, she was sentenced to one year in prison for “promoting perversion and immorality through removing the hijab”. Her requests for parole had all been denied.
She spent her prison time in Qarchak prison and was finally released on Sunday.
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