BOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR ELNAAZ NOROUZI: ‘What Happened To Mahsa Could Have Happened To Me’

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A Bollywood superstar who fled Iran 22 years ago has stated that what happened to Mahsa Amini at the hands of the country’s so-called morality police could have happened to her.

Elnaaz Norouzi, 29, a Bollywood actress who spent part of her childhood in Iran, has taken to social media to show her support for the mass protests erupting across the country after the death of Mahsa.

Elnaaz was born in the city of Tehran in Iran and moved to Hanover in Germany with her family 22 years ago.

Bollywood actress Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, as a child poses in the front right corner in undated photo. She supported Iranian women after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody for not wearing hijab properly on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (@iamelnaaz/Newsflash)

The striking Bollywood actress, who began modelling when she was 14, can be seen in an old photograph taken when she was six years old in a recent post on her Instagram page.

She wrote: “Right corner… that’s me, 6 years old… in my school in Tehran…

“Looking forward to the day where a 6-year-old isn’t forced to wear a hijab in school and be beaten up if it’s not worn properly.

Bollywood actress Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, poses in undated photo. She supported Iranian women after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody for not wearing hijab properly on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (@iamelnaaz/Newsflash)

“Looking forward to the day where all women have the right to choose what they want to do.”

Elnaaz went on to recount her own brush with Iran’s self-styled ‘morality police’ when she was visiting family in Tehran a few years back in a series of videos where the actress condemns the recent deaths of a number of protestors in the country.

She said: “What happened to Mahsa could have happened to Elnaaz.”

Bollywood actress Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, poses in undated photo. She supported Iranian women after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody for not wearing hijab properly on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (@iamelnaaz/Newsflash)

“I was out on the road with my cousin when a woman suddenly came in front of me, and she just asked me ‘what is this?’.

I was then taken by the morality police because my pants (pant legs) weren’t wide enough.

She continued: “Even though my manto, which is that thing you have to wear to cover your bum and cover everything, was long enough to cover my ankle, my pants were not wide.

Bollywood actress Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, poses in undated photo. She supported Iranian women after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody for not wearing hijab properly on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (@iamelnaaz/Newsflash)

“I was taken in a van to the ‘re-education centre’ where they took Mahsa as well.”

The 29-year-old went on to explain that she was allowed to go home after someone picked her up with the “right clothing.”

This was after Iranian authorities allegedly confiscated her passport and her phone.

Bollywood actress Elnaaz Norouzi, 30, poses in undated photo. She supported Iranian women after Mahsa Amini, 22, died in custody for not wearing hijab properly on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (@iamelnaaz/Newsflash)

She added: “They take you for the weirdest reasons… your nail colour, your hijab, your clothing, anything.

“I don’t want any woman to live like this, no woman deserves this.

“This small story was just so you understand that what happened to Mahsa could have happened to me and it can happen to any woman in Iran.”

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