They wanted to express their full support.
Juliette Armanet, Isabelle Huppert, Pomme, Muriel Robin… A series of French actresses and singers cut a lock of hair in solidarity with the struggle of Iranian women, in a video posted this Wednesday on Instagram.
Against the background of
Bella Ciao
, these actresses and singers, including the Belgian Angèle, Isabelle Adjani or Laure Calamy, cut a lock of hair facing the camera, taking up one of the symbols of the ongoing uprising in Iran.
“The Iranian people, women in the lead, demonstrate at the risk of their lives.
These people only hope for access to the most essential freedoms.
These women, these men, are asking for our support,” they said in a written message accompanying the video on the Support Women Iran Instagram account.
“Their courage and their dignity compel us.
It is impossible not to denounce again and again this terrible repression (…) We have thus decided to respond to the call that was launched to us by cutting, we too, some of these locks”, they add, in this appeal launched by lawyers.
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The day before, more than a thousand personalities of the 7th French art, including stars like Léa Seydoux, Isabelle Huppert and Dany Boon, renowned filmmakers or the boss of the Cannes Film Festival Thierry Frémaux had already called for "supporting the revolt of women in Iran”, in a tribune.
Until now, the French artistic community had been little heard on the protest movement triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran.
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died on September 16, three days after her arrest for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code, which notably requires women to wear the veil.
Her death sparked a wave of protests in Iran, which were violently suppressed, and rallies in solidarity with Iranian women around the world.
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