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Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi Rallies Support for Iranian Women’s Rights Protestors: ‘This Is a Human Responsibility’ (Video)

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killing of Mahsa Amini.On Sept. 16, the 22-year-old was murdered in the nation’s capital for wearing what morality police deemed “immodest clothing.” Authorities denied harming her and claimed she suffered from pre-existing health conditions, which her family disputed.

A widely-circulated image showed Amini badly injured and comatose before she died, igniting protests across the nation that have seen women burning their veils and cutting their hair for the last five days.Farhadi, the Academy Award-winning Iranian filmmaker behind “A Separation” and “The Salesman,” called for solidarity with the protestors via Instagram video.He began by referencing the images of “progressive and courageous women leading protests for their human rights” that have surfaced over the past few days. “They are looking for simple yet fundamental rights that the state has denied them for years.

This society, especially these women, has traveled a harsh and painful path to this point, and now they have clearly reached a landmark,” he stated.Asghar described the scenes he had witnessed: “Most of them are very young – 17 years old, 20 years old.

I saw outrage and hope in their faces and in the way they marched in the streets.”He continued, “I deeply respect their struggle for freedom and the right to choose their own destiny despite all the brutality they are subjected to.

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