Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad started the White Wednesdays movement in 2017 to encourage Iranian women to wear white headscarves on Wednesdays to protest the compulsory hijab (veiling) laws in Iran. After the 1979 revolution, Iranian women have been forced to wear the hijab in public and cover their hair. In 2018, 112 women in Iran were arrested while defending women’s rights, many for peacefully protesting against the compulsory law. Alinejad