Dancing Tehran: 17-year-old Maedeh Hojabri found herself confessing to moral crimes on Iranian state TV after authorities clamped down on her Instagram account. Her story inspired the viral #dancingisnotacrime protest.
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"I felt the pain because I went through what Maida went through" says journalist and activist Masih Alinejad, who published the story of Maida's arrest and confession under duress. "As a prisoner, I did a false confession. As a woman, I was punished because of dancing and taking off my hijab", says Alinejad. She saw the power of social media to unite the call for women's freedom, as women and men danced in solidarity.
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