French stars have filmed themselves reducing off locks of their hair in a video posted in assist of protesters in Iran.
Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, in addition to different French stars of display and music, have filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted in assist of protesters in Iran.
“For freedom,” Binoche mentioned as she hacked a big handful of hair off the highest of her head with a pair of scissors, earlier than brandishing it in entrance of the digicam.
The video posted on Wednesday, hash-tagged #HairForFreedom, comes as Iran is engulfed by anti-government protests. They had been sparked by the demise of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest on September 13 in Tehran for allegedly violating Iran’s strict gown code.
Iranian ladies have taken off their headscarves and reduce their hair to protest in opposition to Amini’s demise.
The video of Cotillard, Binoche and dozens of different ladies reducing off locks of their hair was launched on an Instagram account, “soutienfemmesiran” – which interprets as “assist ladies in Iran”.
“These ladies, these males are asking for our assist. Their braveness and their dignity obliges us,” mentioned a publish with the video.
“We’ve got determined to reply to the enchantment made to us by reducing – us too – a few of these locks.”
Among the different ladies who took half included actors Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was additionally filmed reducing off a lock of hair from the top of her mom, singer Jane Birkin.
Since Amini’s demise, Iran’s rulers have been grappling with the most important nationwide unrest in years. Greater than 130 individuals have died in clashes and protests, in response to rights teams.
Protests in solidarity with Iranian demonstrators have unfold overseas together with to London, Paris, Rome and Madrid.
“Iranian ladies count on assist from the worldwide neighborhood. It is a lovely strategy to present that assist,” French lawyer Richard Sedillot, who initiated the motion, instructed Reuters information company.
“That is solely a primary step, I hope that everyone on the planet will observe, not solely actresses however everybody. Males may additionally reduce their hair; I feel it’ll occur.”
Legal professionals, media personalities and different ladies in France have adopted go well with.