People are expressing solidarity and spreading awareness through hashtags, a viral song and memes.
and replaced with an image of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in flames, people made memes of the TV presenter's stone-faced reaction.The mandatory hijab laws and what the protesters see as the constant meddling of Islamic laws in their everyday lives have been the targets of much of the criticism on social media.
Western pop music and Iranian pop music produced outside the country are banned in Iran, and for decades authorities would stop and search cars - and even raid homes - in search of what they called "indecent music". In 2017, the government even banned Zumba exercise classes in gender-segregated gyms, calling them "un-Islamic".That was a reference to the 43-year-old ban on ethnic minorities teaching their own languages in schools in Iran.
It is not clear whether he was still in detention when he made the statement and whether he was under duress. An artist inside Iran called Benyamin created a short video, entitled Unity for Freedom, that has gone viral on social media.
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