‘For freedom’: French actors cut their hair in support of Iranian women

Celebrities including Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard stage protest after death of Mahsa Amini

More than 50 high-profile French women have filmed themselves cutting their hair in support of Iranian women and girls who have been killed in protests at the death of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by Iranian morality police.

They include some of the best-known names of French cinema; Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani and Isabelle Huppert, as well as the Belgian singer Angele. The British-born singer Jane Birkin - who is filmed with her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg - and actor Charlotte Rampling, both of whom live in France, and Julie Gayet, wife of former French president Francois Hollande, were also shown cutting their hair for freedom".