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In 2014, authorities sentenced six men and women to suspended six-month prison sentences and 91 lashings for a video in which they could be seen dancing to Pharrell Williams’ song ‘Happy’ on the rooftops of Tehran.Īfter their arrest, Iranian state TV had shown a similar video in which the group confessed to voluntarily filming the ‘Happy’ dance video. This is not the first time that young people in Iran have been caught in the war between religious hardliners and liberals demanding more social freedoms in the country. Soon after Hojabri’s reported detention, Iranian state TV Saturday showed a young woman, with her face blurred, crying and explaining her reasons for posting the video.Īccording to media reports, the video was of Hojabri admitting to breaking social norms and clarifying that “it wasn’t for attracting attention” and that she did not have “any intention to encourage others doing the same”.Īctivists called these forced confessions, saying it’s a tactic often used by Iranian authorities to justify crackdowns. Iranian law prohibits public dancing even as the use of headscarf in public is mandatory for women. She used to record dance videos in her bedroom and upload them to her instagram with 600K followers. Teenage dancer, Maedeh Hojabri, was arrested in Iran. Before her account was suspended, she was reported to have more than 600,000 followers. In some, she can be seen without a headscarf, swaying to songs by popular Western artists like Justin Bieber.
Hojabri’s videos, one of which has close to one million views, show her dancing in her room to Iranian and Western music. The teenager was one of many detained by authorities for posting videos on Instagram that were seen to be in violation of the Islamic republic’s strict social codes. New Delhi: Eighteen-year-old gymnast Maedeh Hojabri would have been just another Internet celebrity in most other parts of the world, but in Iran, she has unwittingly become the face of rising dissent. Women in Iran are defying authorities and posting videos on Instagram in violation of the strict social codes.