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in 2014, Alinejad insisted that women who have sent their photos are "not women activists, but just ordinary women talking from their hearts". Many of the pictures were accompanied by captions, some in a poetic language, and others were mischievous or defiant. Many captions have placed the emphasis
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Once I posted pictures of in London, free, without a scarf. I received messages from
Iranian women saying: "Don't publish these pictures because we envy you." Soon after I published another picture of myself driving in my hometown in Iran, again without a scarf. And I said to Iranian women: "I bet
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Facebook page called Stealthy Freedom was set up on 5 May 2014 and it is dedicated to posting images of women with their hijab (scarf) removed. Many women have submitted their pictures without hijab, taken in various locations: parks, beaches, markets, streets, and elsewhere. Alinejad said that
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campaign, expressing their thoughts as well as briefly wearing the hijab themselves. This
Facebook page has received over 100,000 likes and is largest among rival initiatives, but it has been criticized by foreign commentators as "laddish" for containing juvenile jokes, cartoons and videos. Among
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you can do the same." Many of them started to send me their photos without hijab, so I created a page called "My
Stealthy Freedom." . . . If I were in Iran this website wouldn't exist. From far away those voiceless women can express themselves for the first time more than 30 years.
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Alinejad was the target of a misinformation campaign by Iranian state television, which falsely claimed that Alinejad was a target of sexual violence. Alinejad said that the story is false.
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in the country. By the end of 2016, the page has surpassed 1 million
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has been described as an extremely active and lively space, publishing each month around 35–50 new pieces of content which are shared by hundreds of people. In mid-2014,
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conservative type of hijab. Furthermore, it cannot be said that the women participating in this stealthy movement of removing their hijab are the majority."
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