Iranian Women Face Arrest for Viral TikTok Dance Videos

Five young Iranian women who filmed themselves dancing without headscarves in a viral video to the song “Calm Down” by Nigerian Afrobeats singer and rapper Rema have allegedly been arrested and forced into confessing. It is illegal for women to dance in public without wearing the Islamic headscarf in Iran. Abolition of the obligatory headscarf rule has been one of the chief demands of the protest movement that erupted in September after the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.