French singers, activists and actresses such as Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard or Charlotte Gainsbourg released a video on Wednesday in which appear when cutting strands of hair in solidarity with Iranian women, amid protests over the death of the young Mahsa Amini.
“For Freedom! “exclaims actress Juliette Binoche, scissors in hand, opening this video, which was broadcast through social networks.
Several dozen artists and activists – mostly French, although there are also personalities like the Belgian singer Angèle – follow one another cut her hair on setwhich accompanied by the Italian song “Hello beautiful”it also explains Amini’s death at the hands of the Iranian moral police for badly wearing the veil.
“The Iranian people, starting with women, manifest at the risk of their own lives. Those people just want to have access to the most essential freedom. Those women, those men, ask for our support“, explains the collective message of these interpreters.
“Your courage and dignity oblige us to act. It is impossible not to denounce this terrible repression again and again (…) We have decided to respond to the appeal also cutting a fuse“, they explain.
The list of participating stars and activists also includes names like French actresses Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bérénice Bejo and Isabelle Huppert.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died on September 16 after being arrested by the so-called Tehran Morale Police for believing she was wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly.
Since then there have been protests they have caused 41 deaths according to a tally by Iranian state television last week, a figure that the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights estimates at 92.
The protest does not stop in Iran and has already reached secondary schools
Far from calming down in Iran the protests continue and they also begin to manifest themselves in tacit and worldly ways: women walking through public streets without a veil and apparently without protesting; drivers honking continuously, or screams from the windows against the regime at night.
In the last two days, a new front has opened up in the protests: girls in primary and secondary schools.
“Woman, Life, Freedom”students in a school in the city of Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan, shouted while waving the veil, according to an unverified video released by activists.
In the city of Karaj, in the province of Alborz, young students they threw their veils against a teacher.
“We do not want the Islamic Republic” and “forget the clerics”, shouted the high school students according to another video.
In cities like Tehran, very young demonstrators marched through the streetsas the horns sounded in support, according to video in which it can be seen that these are Iranian roads, the license plates are from the country and the accent is from the area.
These new protests are quieter than the pitched battles days gone by, but if a tragedy should happen in one of the schools, the consequences would be unpredictable.
“The protests have become uncontrollable. Unless (the authorities) want to hit and arrest school girls there is no going back, “Sina Toossi, an analyst at the Center for International Policy in Washington, said on Twitter.
And this has been how the authorities have handled the crisis so far, with violent repressionarrests of protesters, activists, journalists and public figures who supported the protests, while accusing the “enemy”, namely the US and Israel of being behind it all.
Source: EFE and RFI
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Source: Clarin
