About fifty artists, singers, actresses express their support for Iranian women with a video clip, cutting several threads.
Cut the strands of hair. The gesture has become a symbol of support for Iranian women who have been demonstrating for two weeks despite repression in their country. “For freedom,” starts Juliette Binoche before cutting her hair in front of the camera.
About fifty actresses, singers and activists like her have been filmed cutting their locks with scissors in hand. This video is shot in the background of a Persian cover Bella Chiao (became the anthem of the rebellion), we recognize the faces of Marion Cotillard, Angell, Isabelle Adjani, Alexandra Lamy, Pomme, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Armand, Muriel Robin, Laure Calamy, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Isabelle Carré, Bejoux. Melanie Laurent or even Julie Gayet.
In the video, French artists cut their hair in solidarity with Iranian women
With this video, everyone is expressing their solidarity with Iranian women two weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini. “On September 13, he was arrested and tortured to death by the deputy police,” the clip condemns. “She was only accused of wearing an inappropriate veil. She died for letting a few strands of hair show. His death shocked and shocked Iran and the world.”
“Condemn again and again”
After Mahsa Amini’s death, the uprising in Iran became an unprecedented movement led by women. In particular, he questions a law passed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution that requires everyone to wear a veil that covers the head and neck and hides hair. Despite the threats and pressures, women are loudly and clearly declaring their right to freedom, chanting the slogan “Zan, zendegi, liberi” (“Woman, life, freedom”). “We are facing a generation of more educated women who are not going to accept this dictate,” analyzed Azade Qian, professor of sociology at Paris Cite University in an interview with Madame Figaro.
The video published by the group “Soutien Femmes Iran” is accompanied by a clear text: “It is impossible not to find out again and again these terrible repressions. There are already dozens of dead men and women, including children. The arrests only add to the number of prisoners already illegally detained and often tortured. So we have decided to respond to the call to us by cutting some of these locks as well.
Iranian women need to know that they are not alone
Julie Gayet
With the support of Julie Gayet, three lawyers initiated this video: Richard Sedillo, specialized in the protection of human rights (he had already mobilized for the release of the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh), the President of Paris, Julie Couturier, and the former president of the National Council of Barreaux, Christian Feral Schul. : “Iranian women should know that they are not alone,” Julie Gayet said in an interview with France Inter on Wednesday. “Silence can be the worst form of violence.”
A few hours after the publication of the video, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in turn took the scissors to cut off a bunch of hair. There is also an opportunity to support the cause of Iranian women.
In the video, the Iranian women restart the TikTok GRWM trend before going on the show
Solidarity of the seventh art
On Tuesday, October 4, about a thousand personalities of the French seventh art, including Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Camille Cotin and Dani Boon, famous filmmakers or the director of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Fremaux, called to “support the uprising of women in Iran. ,” in a column provided to AFP. “We call on all those who stand against Mahsa Amini’s murder and the massive, brutal and deadly repression ordered by the Iranian authorities to express their solidarity with the people of Iran loud and clear.”
Source: Le Figaro
