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On social networks, numerous images relay Ahou Darayei's act of defiance and highlight his courage.
IRAN – Woman, life, freedom. This Saturday, November 2, Ahou Daryaei, an Iranian student, stripped naked in front of Azad University in Tehran as a sign of protest against the harassment of security agents regarding her wearing a headscarf. The scene, filmed from a nearby window, shook the country, before going around the world.
A very strong gesture of civil disobedience, in line with the protests against the obligation to wear the veil for Iranian women and the demonstrations after the death of Mahsa Amini, a student who died in 2022 after her arrest by the Iranian morality police for “wearing inappropriate clothing”.
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Tributes and symbols of resistance
On social networks, numerous images relay his act of defiance and highlight his courage. Among those that circulate the most, this illustration which shows Ahou Daryaei as a giant, arms crossed in her underwear, above human-sized people who continue on their way.
Relayed in France by Sandrine Rousseau and by feminist figures such as Sarah Durocher, president of family planning and Amy Bah, activist for All of Us, this drawing, which has circulated a lot on Iranian social networks, is signed by the artist hoomanbeinghooman.
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Another photo montage that has gone viral is taken from the video of the scene. Both the background and the people in the photo are in black and white, only Ahou Daryaei appears in color.
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On Instagram, the account of the online training institute Tavaana relays dozens of sketches, montages and illustrations by Iranian artists in support of the student, sometimes accompanied by poems or calls for freedom.
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In the post below, signed by the artist Sanaz Bagheri, we can see Ahou Daryaei catching a relay held by Vida Movahed, an Iranian women's rights activist who held up her scarf hanging on a branch in a street in Tehran in 2017, becoming a symbol of resistance.
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We can also see her, in an illustration of Melody M, walking with a sun on her back and alongside a lion – a very likely reference to the solar lion which appeared on the flag of Iran until 1979, before that the Islamic revolution replaces it with a religious emblem.
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Also abroad, artists took up pencils and brushes to honor Ahou Daryaei. Chinese cartoonist Badiucao expressed his support for the “courageous Iranian woman who protested against the moral police and the forced wearing of the hijab” in the post below.
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In France, the press cartoonist Coco paid tribute to him in Liberation.
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At present, Fars Newsan Iranian media outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, claimed that Ahou Daryaei should be transferred to a psychiatric hospital – a maneuver already used by the regime on several occasions to discredit acts of civil disobedience by women, as noted Iranian activist Azam Jangravi on X.
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