Sepideh Rashno must report to Evin Prison on Saturday for possessing this “evidence of crime.” Four years in prison is the punishment for having hair and not hiding it. Every Iranian woman carries with her an “evidence of crime” for which, merely by possessing it, she can be sentenced to years in prison.

In a not-too-distant future, our children will read the history of these days with astonishment and horror: days in which women had to hide their hair as visible evidence of a crime. A grotesque history that will seem unbelievable to them, yet it happened. As always in history, generations and courageous lives pay the price for the simplest principles of reason and humanity, until freedom becomes part of the ethical consciousness of later generations—until what was self-evident from the beginning is finally accepted.

What is being done to Sepideh is not justice.
This is not the right of the women and girls of Iran.
This is not my right or yours, whether Iranian woman or man.
This unbelievable brutality is not the right of Iran...

Martin Luther King Jr, responding to those who told him that the proper time for social awareness and the removal of racial discrimination had not yet arrived, is rendered here as saying in one of his speeches:

“The right time is always the time to do what is right. And the time to do what is right is this moment, and every moment of our life and history.”