Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Iran 'releases' dancers from Pharrell Happy tribute video




Pharrell Williams song 'Happy was arrested for filming a video tribute to a group of Iranians who have been released on bail, reports from Tehran.
Fans, is a fashion photographer Reihane Taravati, saying, Instagram posted a photo:. "Hello, I'm back"
He and his colleagues were arrested on Tuesday. The police in their "rough clip", "chastity public has been hit."
Dancing in the streets and rooftops of Tehran video of three men and three women showed gains.
The song was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, Williams, who had protested the arrest.
"It is the children who are arrested for trying to spread happiness beyond sad," the singer wrote on Facebook. 



Reihane Taravati on Instagram 
Many Twitter users released dancers exert pressure on the Iranian authorities used the hashtag # freehappyiranians.
Saying, he made a comment last year retweeting - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also appeared to criticize the arrest: "The happiness of the rights of our people, we should not be too hard on the behavior creates joy.".
Announced its release, Taravati wrote: "Hello, I'm back @ Pharrell and all those who cared about us so much love you all and I miss you so much, thank you.".
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) and watch videos of other dancers are also reported to have been released.
Tweet organization "video director, released today, without a source close to the family that has made a good video for all people." 'Deception'
Video Originally posted in March, "We are happy to Tehran" now has more than 40,000 times.
At the end of the clip, the headlines read: "Happy happy to be making an excuse, we enjoyed every second of hope that puts a smile on your face ..."
According to some reports, a total of 13 people were arrested in connection with the video, but official sources have not confirmed the exact number of prisoners.
Iranian state television has shown apparently confessing to the camera men and women, which is a program on Tuesday, broadcasting.


A still image from the 'vulgar' Happy video A subtitled version of the TV clip posted on YouTube, they are encouraged to take an audition video for a Happy are those who argue that "actors" identified as prisoners.
"They're making a movie and told me that they had a permit for it," one man said in the video. "They told them, and I was deceived.
Another young woman said: "We were promised not to publish the video."
According to the interpretation by Iran's Islamic law, women cover their hair and baggy clothes to wear their costumes must be made to save money.
The so-called "moral police" regularly patrols the streets of Iran to enforce standards of Islamic clothing. However, the rules are widely violated.
Authorities blocked access to popular social networking sites on the Internet with heavily filtered in Iran.
But at the kiosk underground singer of the rock band Arash Iran, music, and attempts to suppress freedom of expression has been working for the BBC Persian service said.
"They attacked us in our group, and we broke our guitar ban on music concerts stopped," he said. "But we did not stop, no!"

A montage of images from the Tehran Happy video He hit the animation Despicable Me 2 for the soundtrack was released last year, the music Williams' has inspired hundreds of tributes.
It 'spent 10 weeks at the top of the Hot 100 in the U.S. In the UK, the song reached number one on three different occasions.


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