18-year-old girl jailed for posting videos on Instagram – Observer

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Maedeh Hojabri, an 18-year-old girl, was arrested in Iran for posting videos to dance and not having her head covered on the Instagram social network.

The young woman will also have been forced to confess her "crime" apologize for a video that was broadcast on the public television channel. "I did not do it to attract attention," said Aljazeera. According to the Guardian 's account, the young woman appeared on television among other inmates, her face blurred, crying and trembling. "I had followers and these videos were for them, I had no intention of encouraging others to do the same … I did not work with a team, I I did not receive training.

The detention was allegedly motivated by the videos that Maedeh Hojabri posted in his personal account on the social network Instagram, in which he has about 600 thousand followers. girl seems to dance to Persian music, in other songs of internationally renowned singers like Justin Bieber and Shakira.

In Iran, it is forbidden for fem my dances and the law requires them to cover their head with a handkerchief in public. This case revives the debate on the limits of public space in Iranian society and the application of laws in social networks.

This is not an unpublished case in the country. In 2014, a group of six youths were also arrested for posting a video that they danced on the song "Happy" by American Pharrell Williams on a terrace in Tehran. The group was finally released the next day. One of the young women involved in this case has already commented on the recent arrest. "You stopped me to be #Happy when I was 23 years old [anos] .Now, they arrested #MaedehHojabri and she's only 18 years old [anos]!" what are you going to do to the next generation? ", writes Reihane Taravati on Twitter