A call to demonstrate was launched for Tuesday November 5, 2024 at 5 p.m. Place du Panthéon, in front of the Sorbonne University, in Paris, in support of the student arrested in Iran after undressing in the street.
Saturday November 2, a young student appeared undressed in front of an Iranian university. While Islamic law in Iran imposes a very strict dress code on women, the young woman was arrested and has since disappeared. His symbolic gesture, the video of which went viral around the world, sparked a great wave of emotion.
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Call to free her
The demonstration aims to fight “against religious tyranny and the extreme right”. “This act of resistance reminds us that in theocracy, women and gender minorities face double street harassment on a daily basis”deplore the signatories of the appeal published on Médiapart referring to harassment “ on the part of men, as everywhere in the world, but also and above all on the part of the misogynistic, authoritarian and religious power structure and its ruthless moral police responsible for enforcing patriarchal and domination laws..
The collective “urge” political leaders to “call for the immediate release of Ahou Daryaei” or even to “facilitate the issuance of visas and the reception of refugees fleeing gender-based persecution”.
The appeal, which takes up the slogan of the Iranian demonstrators Femme, Vie Liberté, is notably signed by the Franco-Iranian lawyer and president of Iran Justice Chirinne Ardakani, the president of the women's foundation Anne-Cécile Mailfert, or even by Dominique Sopo, president of SOS racism.
