Iran arrests 2 actors for eradicating hijab as crackdown on protesters continues

Two Iranian actors have been detained for eradicating hijabs and expressing solidarity with anti-hijab protests. The protests erupted in Iran in September following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini in Morality police custody.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 21, 2022 09:13 IST

Actress Hengameh Ghaziani poses upon her arrival for a screening through the thirty fourth version of the Fajr Film Festival on the Milad Tower in Tehran in 2016. (Photo: AFP)

By India Today Web Desk: Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi — two outstanding actors in Iran — have been detained for ‘provocative’ social media posts as crackdown on anti-hijab protesters continues within the Islamic Republic.

Maybe this might be my final put up, Hengameh Ghaziani wrote on her Instagram, including that, “From this moment on, whatever happens to me, know that as always, I am with the Iranian people until my last breath.”

The 52-year-old film star was detained for eradicating the compulsory headband in a busy avenue. The video, which seems to have been filmed in a purchasing avenue, exhibits Ghaziani bareheaded, going through the digicam with out talking after which turning round and binding her hair right into a ponytail.

Later, Katayoun Riahi was additionally arrested for a similar purpose, in line with state media.

The actor, 60, who has appeared in a string of award-winning motion pictures, had in September given an interview to London-based Iran International TV, an outlet despised by the regime, with out sporting a hijab.

She had expressed solidarity with the protests which have swept Iran because the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, in addition to opposition to the compulsory hijab.

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The protest erupted in Iran in September following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian lady. Mahsa was reportedly killed three days after her arrest in Tehran by the morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic costume code for girls.

The protests, which had been concentrated in Iran’s Kurdish-populated northwestern areas, unfold to over 50 cities and cities nationwide, are the most important since a wave of demonstrations in 2019 over gasoline value rises.

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Amini’s loss of life unleashed anger over points together with freedoms within the Islamic Republic and an financial system reeling from sanctions. Women have performed a outstanding function within the protests, waving and burning their veils, slicing their hair in public, knocking the turbans off the heads of clerics and asking them to pack their baggage and go away Iran.

More than 300 folks have been killed by safety forces over two months of protests, in line with the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR). The group says 15,000 folks have been arrested, a determine the Iranian authorities deny.

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Nov 21, 2022