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Please find below the press release and the translation of the Statement 
by Iranian Artists, Scholars, Critics, Art Historians, and Curators in 
Support of Art Students’ Protests in the Country.
In their push for the world media to report and amplify the voice of 
Iranian art students and ensure an immediate end to violence against 
them, the Iranian art community expects solidarity from the global art 
community.

Thank you,
A Group of Iranian Artists, Writers, and Critics
statementiranianartists.wordpress.com 
<http://statementiranianartists.wordpress.com>*
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> *Statement by Iranian Artists, Scholars, Critics, Art Historians, and 
> Curators in Support of Art Students’ Protests in the Country *
>
> *Press Release, **30** October 2022***
>
> Hundreds of Iranian artists, academics, and writers voiced their 
> solidarity with the Iranian art students who have been under brutal 
> attacks by the government security forces for their protests against 
> systemic violations of human rights by the Islamic Republic state.
>
> The statement has been signed by over 600 artists, scholars, writers, 
> critics, art historians, and curators, including some of the prominent 
> members of Iranian art including, Shirin Neshat, Nairy Baghramian, 
> Sonia Balassanian, Nicky Nodjoumi, Sussan Deyhim, Parviz Tanavoli, 
> Bahram Beyzai, Ruyin Pakbaz, Parastou Forouhar, Tala Madani, Shirazeh 
> Houshiary, Reza Deghati, Hengameh Golestan, Layla Diba, among many others.
>
> In the statement, “all forms of arrest, intimidation, and suppression 
> by the regime” have been condemned in strongest terms. Iranian artists 
> and writers demand “the immediate and unconditional release of all 
> students who have been detained.” They also call for the immediate end 
> of policing on university campuses and investigation of students’ 
> lives by the intelligence services.
>
> For almost six weeks since the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini by the 
> Islamic Republic police, art students across the country have been on 
> strike, demanding the end of dictatorship in Iran. Students’ peaceful 
> protests and acts of civil disobedience at universities against human 
> rights abuses, compulsory hejab, and sex segregation have been faced 
> with violence, killings, torture and physical abuses, confiscation of 
> their electronic devices, arbitrary detentions in undisclosed 
> locations, abductions, and disappearances. University campuses have 
> been forcibly attacked, sieged, or occupied by the regime’s security 
> forces and students are being threatened to be expelled from the 
> school and dorms.
>
> The statement was published on 29 October 2022 and it has been 
> endorsed by more than 5000 members of the Iranian art community. The 
> translation of the statement and the full list of signatories can be 
> accessed through this link 
> <https://statementiranianartists.wordpress.com/>.
>
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> THE FULL TEXT
>
> *Statement by Iranian Artists, Scholars, Critics, Art Historians, and 
> Curators in Support of Art Students’ Protests in the Country *
>
> For more than four weeks, the Iranian art students’ support for the 
> “Woman, Life, Liberty” movement has been on full display on university 
> campuses across the country. They have exerted their right to civil 
> disobedience, and organized strikes, sit-ins, vigils, and other acts 
> of collective remembrance to protest against wide-ranging human rights 
> violations in Iran.
>
> In their aspirations, the Iranian art students are echoing the demands 
> of Iranian society in its entirety.
>
> These protests, however, are continuing in a climate where the 
> Ministry of Higher Education, in well-documented and systemic 
> collusion with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Intelligence Services 
> are cracking down on students through arbitrary arrests, detentions, 
> expulsions, confiscation of student identification cards, class 
> cancellations, and even total closure of campuses.
>
> Such atrocities are often conducted by campus security forces and some 
> of their regime-backed enablers among administrators and professors.
>
> Despite the threats and violence, students are insisting on their 
> rights to assemble and to express themselves freely and through 
> collective statements, they have demanded change: “We will reclaim our 
> right to decide for ourselves, and we will fight tyrants and 
> reactionaries.”
>
> Hereby, we, a group of Iranian artists, scholars, critics, art 
> historians, and curators, declare our solidarity with Iranian art 
> students in their struggle for equality, life, and freedom. With all 
> of our cultural and social power, we stand firmly with them.
>
> We condemn, in the strongest terms, all forms of arrest, intimidation, 
> and suppression by the regime, and we demand the immediate and 
> unconditional release of all students who have been detained.
>
> We believe that the Ministry of Education and its co-conspirator 
> institutions are totally incapable of making any fair decisions 
> regarding the fate of the students. The ominous shadow of the Iranian 
> regime’s security forces and their constant threats must be eradicated 
> completely from the university campuses and all aspects of students’ 
> lives.
>
> Art students in Iran are now leading the way to re-imagine Iranian art 
> universities.
>
> In solidarity, Iranian artists, scholars, critics, art historians, and 
> curators.
> October 2022


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