ISIS jailed and beat up this Iraqi barber for giving the wrong haircut
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Seeking Security
GlobalPost
November 18, 2016 · 2:45 PM EST
By Richard Hall
Iraqi men at a barber shop in the Intisar district of Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 14. The barber interviewed for this story is not one of them.
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Ari Jalal/Reuters
When the Islamic State came to Mosul, the city’s residents were forced to change a lot of things about the way they lived, whom they spoke to, how they dressed, and even how they cut their hair.
That was bad news for barbers like Muhammad.
“Business was bad. People started to cut their hair at home. Men had their hair cut by their wives,” says Muhammad, who lived in the Samah neighborhood in the east of the city before fleeing one week ago. He is now living in a camp for displaced people in Khazir, east of Mosul. (He is not one of the men photographed above, and his last name is withheld for his safety.)
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