Cotillard, Adjani, Angèle…. They reduce a lock of hair out of solidarity.

Isabelle Huppert, Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Adjani… Many French actresses and singers have reduce a lock of hair in solidarity with the wrestle of Iranian girls, in a video posted Wednesday on Instagram.

Towards the background of “Bella Ciao” in Persian, these actresses and singers, together with the Belgian Angèle and the French-speaking Britons Charlotte Rampling and Jane Birkin, reduce a lock of hair in entrance of the digital camera, taking over one of many symbols of the present rebellion in Iran.

“The Iranian individuals, girls within the lead, exhibit on the threat of their lives. These individuals solely hope for entry to essentially the most important freedoms. These girls, these males, ask for our assist”, they are saying in a written message accompanying the video on the Instagram account “soutienfemmesiran”.

“Their braveness and their dignity compel us. It’s unimaginable to not denounce many times this horrible repression (…) We have now thus determined to reply to the decision that was launched to us by chopping, we too, a few of these wicks”, they add, on this enchantment initiated by attorneys.

Name to “assist the ladies’s revolt in Iran”

The day earlier than, greater than a thousand personalities of the seventh French artwork, together with stars like Léa Seydoux, Isabelle Huppert and Dany Boon, famend filmmakers or the boss of the Cannes Movie Competition Thierry Frémaux had already referred to as for “supporting the revolt of ladies in Iran”, in a column transmitted to AFP.

Till now, the French inventive neighborhood had been little heard on the protest motion triggered by the loss of life 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 gown code, which notably requires girls to put on the veil. Her loss of life sparked a wave of protests in Iran, which had been violently suppressed, and rallies in solidarity with Iranian girls all over the world.

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