Cartoon 107: My Stealthy Freedom

Shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the Islamic covering (hijab) was imposed on Iranian women, and serious penalties, ranging from warnings by Morality Police and arrests to imprisonment and fines, were stipulated and enforced for women who did not observe the dress code. In 2014, with the creation of “My Stealthy Freedom,” a Facebook page that has turned into an online movement for Iranian women to protest the forced hijab, thousands of women have submitted photographs of themselves without the Islamic covering for publication on the page, while officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran have shown their dismay and anger for the movement. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani’s take on the movement.