Juliette Binoche, Julie Gayet, Isabelle Adjani, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Angèle … About fifty artists appear in a video in which they symbolically cut a wick of hair.
Le Monde
In support of Iranian women who demonstrate every day, at the risk of their lives, since the death on September 16 of Masha Amini, around fifty French actresses and singers film themselves cutting off the strands of hair, in A video broadcast Wednesday October 5, on Instagram. An echo to the gesture of Iranian who cut their hair or shave their heads as a sign of protest.
Masha Amini, 22, died three days after his arrest for offense to the strict dress code of the Islamic Republic which forces women to wear the veil. His death sparked a wave of demonstrations in Iran, violently repressed, and gatherings of solidarity with Iranian women around the world.
Three lawyers are at the origin of this initiative, Explains France Inter : Richard Sédillot, specializing in the defense of the rights of the ‘ Man, La Bâtonnière de Paris, Julie Couturier, and the former president of the National Bar Council, Christiane Féral-Schuhl. Actress Julie Gayet supported them to write the text that accompanies the video published on social networks and transmit it to artists:
“It is impossible not to denounce this terrible repression again and again. The dead and the dead are already counted by dozens, among which children. The arrests only increase the number of prisoners and prisoners already detained in complete illegality and too often tortured. We have thus decided to answer the call that was launched by cutting, too, some of these wicks. “
” Iranian women need to know that ‘They are not alone “
“Iranian women need to know that they are not alone, explains Julie Gayet to France inter , silence can be the worse violence. “
Tuesday nearly a thousand personalities from the French seventh art, including stars like Léa Seydoux, Isabelle Huppert and Dany Boon, renowned filmmakers or the boss of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, called to “support the revolt Women in Iran “, in a forum transmitted to the France-Presse agency. La Tribune was also signed by winners of the Palme d’Or, such as Julia Ducournau and Jacques Audiard, the Golden Lion like Audrey Diwan, and actors as diverse as Marion Cotillard, Camille Cottin, Louis Garrel or Alex Lutz .
In this call, entitled “Woman Life Liberty”, the watchword of demonstrations in Iran, professionals wish to “collectively express [their] support for Iranian women who fight today for their freedom at the risk of their lives , and to the Iranian people who courageously support their revolt “. “We always call those who protest against the assassination of Mahsa Amini and the massive, brutal and murderous repression, ordered by the Iranian authorities, to express their solidarity loud and clear with regard to the people Iranian, “they continue. The “universal fight for women, for life and for freedom is also ours”.
At least 92 people were killed in Iran during the repression of demonstrations, according to the NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR).