[SNS세상]’Zombie Selfie’ is a 10-year imprisonment for women, and the world’s’saving movement’

When Saha Thavar, 23, of Iran, known for his’zombie-like face’, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, netizens started a lifesaving campaign.

On December 11 last year, Iranian human rights activist Masah Alinejad posted a post on his Facebook page criticizing Iran’s human rights abuses, according to the BBC. Alinejad criticized, “The Islamic Republic has a history of arresting women just by dancing, singing songs, unveiling, going to the playground, modeling, or just using Photoshop like this time.”

“I ask you to help a 19-year-old girl who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for changing her face to Angelina Jolie with makeup and photoshop,” he added. Thousands of netizens around the world expressed their consent and continued to respond that’Tavar must be released’.

Saha Tavar is a girl who has become famous since 2017 by posting photos of her face with a bizarre look like a zombie on social media. At one time, rumors circulated that’she had undergone dozens of plastic surgery to resemble Angelina Jolie’, but this was not true. The secret of the selfie posted by Tabar was in makeup and photoshop. She drew 500,000 followers from all over the world, posting photos on Instagram that made her face look bizarre like a zombie.

However, in October 2019, Iranian authorities arrested Tavar on charges of blasphemy, blasphemy on national clothing regulations, promoting corruption by youth, and inciting violence. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison in an Islamic court last December, and her Instagram account was also deleted.

In Iran, Instagram is the only social media that the government hasn’t blocked and is very popular as a way for young people to express themselves. But that said, you can put yourself at risk if you freely post photos and videos on social media. This is because the country’s Shi’ite Muslim authorities very strictly censor what can and cannot be posted online.

Although exact data are not known, at least 332 people have been arrested in Iran since December 20, 2016 for’online activities’, of which 109 have been arrested for Instagram activity, according to a survey by a group of U.S.-based Iranian human rights activists. .

YTN PLUS Reporter Jeong Yoon-joo
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