Inside 24 hours of putting in an enormous billboard in a central sq. in Tehran which featured fifty girls sporting the hijab below the slogan “Ladies of my land”, authorities in Iran had been compelled to taken it down on Friday, Guardian reported.
The billboard managed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was met with huge outrage as girls pictured within the poster objected to their picture being misused for propaganda.
Releasing a video, Fatemeh Motamed-Arya, a multiaward-winning actor mentioned: “I’m not thought-about a girl in a land the place younger youngsters, little ladies and freedom-loving youths are killed in its fields.”
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“I’m Mahsa’s mom, I’m Sarina’s mom. I’m the mom of all the youngsters who had been killed on this land. I’m the mom of all of the land of Iran, not a girl within the land of murderers,” Fatemeh Motamed-Arya asserted in a video the place she was seen and not using a hijab.
This was adopted by movie director Marzieh Boroumand and mountaineer Parvaneh Kazemi condemning using their picture on the billboard.
Shortly after, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps reinstated the billboard with the identical wording, however with none images.
Large protests in Iran began after the loss of life of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody final month. Amnesty mentioned on Friday that no less than 23 youngsters had been killed in the course of the protests and to this point 144 folks have been killed although the true loss of life toll was larger.
Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his hardest warning but to the protesters, mentioned on Friday that nobody ought to dare assume they will uproot the Islamic Republic.