Five young Iranian ladies who danced to Nigerian Afrobeat singer and rapper, Divine Ikubor, professionally known as Rema’s song ‘Calm Down’ have been allegedly arrested.
The video of the five girls went viral on Tuesday for dancing to Rema’s hit song without headscarves.
The video was spread widely on TikTok and other social media channels last week around International Women’s Day on March 8.
In the said footage the ladies were dancing and slightly showing their stomachs, near high-rise buildings in the Tehran residential district of Ekbatan to the song.
And in the Islamic Republic, it is illegal for women to dance in public as well as to not wear the Islamic headscarf.
Abolition of the obligatory headscarf rule has been one of the chief demands of the civil unrest that erupted in September after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.
Activists,
apparently from the Ekbatan area, first posted the video on Telegram and
Twitter. They said
authorities had been asking residents in the area if they
knew the women, based on the footage.
On Tuesday, the activists claimed that the ladies have been detained and forced into making a video in which they expressed regret.
In unanimity, Rema retweeted the video of the women dancing with their long hair uncovered and commented: “To all the beautiful women who are fighting for a better world, I’m inspired by you, I sing for you and I dream with you.”
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