Irans mahsa amini protests are causing celebrities to cut their hair

Donya Dadrasan, an Iranian pop star with more than 2.5 million Instagram followers, moved to Australia when she was 12, but she remembers her female family members being terrified of the authorities in Iran. They worried that if they didn’t cover their hair with a headscarf, they would be fined, arrested or even beaten. “All the women around me were always scared and nervous when they saw the morality police,” she said in an interview.

Ms. Dadrasan, 24, who sings in Persian and is popular with young people in Iran, made a music video earlier this year, “Amoo Hassan,” that depicted an imaginary interaction with Iranian security forces. So when the singer heard on Sept. 16 that Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, had died in police custody after allegedly violating the country’s strict Islamic dress code, she was furious.