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<td>Tue, 1 Nov 2022 06:36:08 +0100</td>
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class="" style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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.</span></span><span
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"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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.</span></div>
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style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">Thank you,</span></span><span class="eop"><span
class="" style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
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style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI",
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
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class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">A Group of Iranian Artists, Writers, and
Critics</span></span><span class="" style="font-size:
9pt; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></div>
<a href="http://statementiranianartists.wordpress.com"
class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400;"
moz-do-not-send="true">statementiranianartists.wordpress.com</a></span></b>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span
class="" style="font-family: "Calibri
Light", sans-serif;">Statement by Iranian
Artists, Scholars, Critics, Art Historians, and
Curators in Support of Art Students’ Protests in the
Country </span></b><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"></span></div>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class=""
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe
UI", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
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baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman", serif;"><span class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b
class=""><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"
lang="EN-US">Press Release, </span></b></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b class=""><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">30</span></b></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><b class=""><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;" lang="EN-US"> October 2022</span></b></span><b
class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 9pt;
font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></b></div>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class=""
style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "Segoe
UI", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">Hundreds<span class=""> of Iranian
artist</span></span></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;" lang="EN-US">s, academics, and writers</span></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> 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.</span></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
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justify; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;
vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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, </span><span
class="" style="font-family: "Calibri
Light", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Parastou
Forouhar,</span><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;"> Tala Madani, Shirazeh Houshiary, Reza Deghati,
Hengameh Golestan, Layla Diba, among many others.</span></div>
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UI", sans-serif;"></span></div>
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justify; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span
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"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></p>
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vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">In the statement, “</span></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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.<span class="">”
They also call for the immediate end of policing
on university campuses and investigation of
students’ lives by the intelligence services.</span></span></span><span
class="eop"><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></div>
<p class="gmail-paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align:
justify; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="eop"><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;
vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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. </span></span><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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 <span class="">students are being threatened to
be expelled from the school and dorms.</span></span></span><span
class="eop"><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></div>
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justify; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="eop"><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;
vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif;"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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 </span></span><a
href="https://statementiranianartists.wordpress.com/"
target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);
text-decoration-line: none;">this link</span></span></a><span
class="gmail-normaltextrun"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">. </span></span><span class="eop"><span
class="" style="font-family: "Calibri
Light", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span
class="" style="font-size: 9pt; font-family:
"Segoe UI", sans-serif;"></span></div>
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margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri,
sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family:
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<div class="" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;
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class="" style="font-family: "Calibri
Light", sans-serif;">THE FULL TEXT</span></div>
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sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family:
"Calibri Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span
class="" style="font-family: "Calibri
Light", sans-serif;">Statement by Iranian
Artists, Scholars, Critics, Art Historians, and
Curators in Support of Art Students’ Protests in the
Country </span></b><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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 <span class="" style="border: 1pt none
windowtext; padding: 0cm;">violations</span> in
Iran. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">In their aspirations, the Iranian art
students are echoing the demands of Iranian society in
its entirety. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">Such atrocities are often conducted by
campus security forces and some of their regime-backed
enablers among administrators and professors. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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.” </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">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. </span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">Art students in Iran are now leading the
way to re-imagine Iranian art universities. </span></div>
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font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;"> </span><span dir="RTL" class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;" lang="FA"></span></p>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">In solidarity, Iranian artists, scholars,
critics, art historians, and curators.</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class=""
style="font-family: "Calibri Light",
sans-serif;">October 2022 </span></div>
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