A slew of protests erupted in Iran on Sunday over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, following her detention by the country’s morality police as women protesters cut their hair and burnt hijabs to protest against the mandatory veiling of women, media reports said.

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian journalist and activist on her social media account shared a video of women cutting their hair and wrote, “Iranian women show their anger by cutting their hair and burning their hijab to protest against the killing of #Mahsa_Amini by hijab police.”

“From the age of 7 if we don’t cover our hair we won’t be able to go to school or get a job. We are fed up with this gender apartheid regime,” she added.

In another tweet, an Iranian journalist shared the visuals from the Tehran University and said that the students joined the protest against the killing of Mahsa Amini by “hijab police”. She also said that the Iranians were outraged.