Iran Pushes Back Artists From Expressing Themselves Against Youth Upheaval

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Iran is systematically trying to shut down those who are expressing themselves and showing their support for the fight for #Mahsa Amini



Art is in peril too in Iran as in a latest movement, the celebrated director Mani Haghighi has been banned from travelling to London to showcase his latest offering the movie Subtraction that was screening in the recent London Film Festival.

Releasing a latest video statement, he has said “I was prevented by the Iranian authorities from boarding my flight to London on Friday. They gave me no reasonable explanation for this utterly rude behaviour.”

A formal spokesperson from the film festival has said that Mr. Haghighi was turned away from the airport and his passport confiscated forcing him to return to Tehran. Apparently, he has been vocal about Iran’s mandatory hijab law, treatment of youth and the death of the young girl #Mahsma Amini.

According to the BBC reporter who has taken to Twitter and said “The regime is banning well known artists who spoke out in favor of Mahsa Amini protests from leaving Iran. Passports confiscated at airport both at arrival & departure. Filmmaker Mani Haghighi was supposed to be in London for screening of his film, he sent this msg: #MahsaAmini”

Mr. Haghighi himself took to Twitter and said that he felt ashamed that he is being kept a prisoner in his own country by authorities who want to intimidate him with power and silence his voice.

The action against Haghighi is the latest in Iran’s harassment of its country’s film-makers. In July, award-winning director Jafar Panahi received a six-year jail sentence following his attempt to find information about fellow film-makers Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Aleahmad, who had been detained earlier.

On Monday the London film festival staged a protest in support of the jailed Iranian directors, as well as film-makers imprisoned in other parts of the world, attended by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras, and festival director Tricia Tuttle among others.


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