PARIS — A group of
Iranian actors have staged a silent
protest without their headscarves in a gesture of solidarity with
demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a video posted on social
media showed.
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The death of Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the
notorious Tehran morality police, has triggered more than two months of
protests which pose the biggest challenge to the clerical regime since the 1979
Islamic revolution.
In the video, the actor and director Soheila
Golestani, wearing black, walks into the shot, and turns around to reveal she
is wearing no headscarf. She stares into the camera. Nine other women then join
Golestani to make the same gesture, as do five men.
Golestani posted the video on her Instagram account
late Sunday, writing: “The performance is over and the truth has been
revealed.”
“Our real heroes are the unnamed people,” she added.
A constant presence in the shot is Iranian director
Hamid Pourazari, who also posted the video on his Instagram account.
Several Iranian actors have during the protest
movement made taboo-breaking gestures of removing their headscarves, with have
been mandatory for women in public since four years after the 1979 revolution.
Earlier this
month,
Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s best-known actors remaining in the
country, posted an image of herself on social media without the mandatory
headscarf.
Alidoosti vowed to stay in her homeland at “any
price”, saying she planned to stop working and instead support the families of
those killed or arrested in the protest crackdown.
Iranian cinema figures were under pressure even
before the start of the protest movement sparked by Amini’s death.
Prize-winning directors Mohammad Rasoulof and Jafar Panahi
remain in detention after their arrests earlier this year.
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