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30.10.2022 - 20:59 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A cross-party group of councillors in Renfrewshire have come together to show their support for demonstrators in Iran.
Labour group depute Alison Ann-Dowling was joined by SNP depute council leader Jacqueline Cameron and fellow female councillors outside Renfrewshire House in Paisley’s Cotton Street on Thursday.
They unfurled the country’s flag as a “public gesture of solidarity” with Iranian women and girls who have marched in protest following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini.
The 22-year-old died on September 16, days after being arrested by morality police in Tehran, for allegedly breaching strict rules on head coverings — sparking a wave of anti-government demonstrations.
Councillor Ann-Dowling, who represents Houston, Crosslee and Linwood, said: “Women’s rights are being rolled back across the world. In Iran, women and girls are fighting back.
“Iranian activists are calling it the first female-led revolution of our time, in the name of the Iranian people against the brutal Islamic Republic regime.
“Women Labour group councillors are protesting as a public gesture of solidarity with Iranian women and girls, alongside all of the women councillors in Renfrewshire who were able to join us to add their support.
“Iranians have called for people around the world to show solidarity. We are answering that call.”
Councillor Ann-Dowling will put forward a motion condemning “atrocities” at the next full council meeting in December.
It will ask the local authority to write to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women to request that Iran is removed from its membership.
The motion will be seconded by her counterpart Councillor Cameron, a Johnstone South and Elderslie representative, who said she had “no hesitation” in doing so.
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Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO Wins Arab Critics’ Awards For European Films
the country's extreme laws regarding how women dress and behave for the past two months.Stepping out in New York City to appear on Live with Kelly and Ryan, wore a tailored brown suit and a white t-shirt with the name “Mahsa Amini” printed over and over in pink capital letters.On September 16, 22-year-old Amini died after being detained by police for not following the restrictive dress code, . Outrage followed, and, to a human rights group, at least 300 protesters have died.
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Merhan Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks film The Terminal, died Saturday at the airport, officials said. He was believed to be 80 years old.
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, who was at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Competition Title Leila’s Brothers, has posted an image of herself on social media without her headscarf in support of ongoing protests in Iran calling more freedom of women.
Editor’s Note: For months now, Iranian screenwriter and satirist Nicole Najafi has been determinedly raising awareness on social media from her home in New York, posting reportage coming to her direct from Iran as the people push back against the regime, and using her growing platform to explain the situation to the world in simple terms, with the footage to back it up. While women remove their head coverings with heroic defiance and ‘dissenters’ are imprisoned and burned, beaten and murdered, Najafi has, unflinching, covered it all.
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Jessica Chastain insists it is "really important" for her to raise awareness of the ongoing protests in Iran. The 'Good Nurse' actress used her Twitter account in September to shine a spotlight on the tragic death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was murdered by the country's morality police for not wearing her hijab correctly, and she is closely following the ongoing reaction to the shocking incident, which has sparked waves of women cutting their hair or shedding their head coverings in protest. She told 'Entertainment Tonight': "It's really important for me to use my platform to amplify anyone's struggle for freedom and peace and safety.
Jessica Chastain is supporting the women of Iran. ET spoke to Chastain at the premiere of her new film, , Tuesday night, where she shared why she chose to speak out about the ongoing protests in the country, and the importance of using her platform for good.«It's really important for me to use my platform to amplify anyone's struggle for freedom and peace and safety.
Meghan Markle is showing her support for activists of women’s rights in Iran.
It appears Britney Spears has made an enemy of the the Iranian government.
, showed her support for women and girls in Iran with a black T-shirt featuring the slogan “Women, Life, Freedom” written in Farsi. Meghan wore the top for a Women@Spotify event at the company’s LA headquarters, where she was joined by Archewell president Mandana Dayani and executive vice president of global communications Ashley Hansen, who are both Iranian.“At an event today, Meghan spoke about the revolution being led by women and young girls in Iran, the courage and bravery they show every day, and their leadership and advocacy of basic human rights,” Dayani wrote as she shared a series of images from the event on .
The pop star tweeted Sunday, “Me & my husband stand with the people of Iran fighting for freedom.”Spears married Iranian-American actor and model Sam Asghari in June.In response to Spears’ message — which has been retweeted more than 25,000 times — the Islamic Republic News Agency noted that Spears was involuntarily placed under a years-long conservatorship. That arrangement ended last year.“American singer @BritneySpears was placed under her father’s conservatorship in 2008 due to her mental health problems,” the IRNA tweet read.
Lily Moayeri “Protest art arises when the society is full of anger and the artist is part of the angry society.” That’s a statement made by Justina, an Iranian rapper, singer and songwriter, on the Oct. 15 episode of BBC program “The Cultural Frontline.” Justina and Iranian singer-songwriter and activist FarAvaz Farvardin were guests on the show, speaking about protest songs in Iran. Experts of sorts, their 2020 song, “Fatva,” was a protest song ahead of its time. Perhaps the most notable of the recent Iran protest songs is Shervin Hajipour’s “Baraye,” which was written in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death after being arrested and beaten by Iran’s notorious morality police for not wearing a proper head covering. After receiving nearly 100,000 submissions, it is now the frontrunner for the Recording Academy’s new song for social change Grammy award.
Iranian protesters have demanded "justice" for a woman who was assaulted by anti-riot police, with one officer forcibly grabbing her bottom and then pushing her on the ground. The video, captured on a security camera at the Argentina Square in Tehran on Wednesday, shows police surrounding the woman. When they start to cart her away, one officer grabs the woman’s bottom before she drops to her knees. Another woman can be heard saying that the officers were pulling the victim’s hair as she knelt on the ground. Tehran’s Police Public Relations office has said the incident will be investigated, the BBC reported, but the police provided no statement as to what might have happened.
Mani Haghighi is the latest film director who has been impacted by Iran’s ongoing restraint on filmmakers.