Saturday April 29 is International Dance Day, so put your dancing shoes on and get ready to step out in protest!

SATURDAY APRIL 29TH 2023, 3-5pm

PICCADILLY CIRCUS LONDON

#DANCE4FREEDOM #HAIR4FREEDOM

Saturday April 29 is International Dance Day, so put your dancing shoes on and get ready to step out in protest!!

Women will be dancing in solidarity with the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in protest against the Islamic Regime where dancing is forbidden & brutally punished.

One Law for All and Women’s Liberation Movement charity FiLiA are again joining forces as part of the Hair4Freedom campaign launched in November 2022. See our last BLOG HERE

This time, we will #Dance4Freedom on International Dance Day.

#Dance4Freedom aims to defend the woman’s revolution in Iran via protest dance. The dance-in will be 45 minutes (accessible moves will be included), symbolic of the time it took for morality police to call an ambulance after Mahsa Amini collapsed when in detention. Mahsa Jina Amini is a young Kurdish woman killed for a few strands of hair. Her death is the spark of the women-led revolution in Iran unfolding in Iran.

Dancing is universal — woven into virtually every society all over the world. In Iran under the Islamic regime, women’s dance is illegal as is being unveiled. Those found dancing on the streets or on social media are often arrested. A young couple have recently been imprisoned for 10 years and six months for ‘promotion of impurity and indecency, assembly and collusion against national security, and propaganda against the regime’ – all for merely dancing at a Tehran landmark.

‘We must continue to honour Mahsa Jina Amini and defend ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ for the women of Iran, Afghanistan and across the globe. This revolution will herald a new dawn if only we support it, encourage it, and defend it. Imagine what the world will look like when a misogynist theocracy is overthrown by a woman’s revolution,’ says One Law for All Spokeswoman Maryam Namazie.

‘It is our duty, as feminists and as women who recognise patriarchal oppression and violence in all its forms, to stand in solidarity with the women of Iran who have been brutalised by the Islamic regime and who still fight back and believe in a better world. There is hope for real change and we ask all women who support this fight for freedom, to join us in this dancing protest.’ - Freya Papworth - Spokeswoman for FiLiA Charity.

Our first joint action in central London in November 2022 saw women line up to cut their hair in solidarity with the women’s revolution in Iran, in an event lasting hours and making headlines around the world. The action was covered extensively, including on Daily Telegraph Australia, VOA, ABC News, Cyprus Mail, Alein Farsi, Independent Persian, Kayhan London, VOA 365, Sri Lanka News, Yahoo, Reuters and others. Attempts were made to throw the gathered hair on the regime’s embassy in London. Activists were prevented from doing so because the police said ‘it would distress the embassy personnel.’

FiLiA and One Law for All will continue to organise protests to pressure the UK government to stop protecting and legitimising a regime that targets and murders women.