Some young Iranians sure aren’t ‘happy’ as trial started in Tehran today accusing them of disturbing the public because they made a You Tube video of Pharell Williams’ hit song ‘Happy’
The friends were first arrested in May after police took offense at the video, which shows three men and three unveiled women dancing in the streets and on the rooftops of Tehran just as in the original and is one of hundreds of covers of the hit song made by fans around the world.
According to Tehran Police Chief, Hossein Sajedinia ,the video clip was vulgar and hurt public chastity(what does that even mean?)
The
arrests came despite the three men and three women setting their video
to private when they realized it had angered Islamic authorities.
Pharell
himself has weighed in on the controversy on Facebook saying it was sad
that these youths were been arrested for trying to spread happiness. He
also tweeted a link to a New York Times blog story about the arrests and
posted a message that appears to offer support for the accused saying
'Happiness is our people's right. We shouldn't be too hard on behaviors
caused by joy.'
During their interrogation, the women were veiled as
Islamic law stipulates that women must cover themselves in public and
Sajedinia said they 'confessed to their criminal acts.'
Meanwhile,
one of them explained that the video was meant as a celebration of Iran
and to show that young people there have fun like they do anywhere else
in the world.
Amnesty International UK's Head of Campaigns, Champa
Patel, has condemned the trial and said arresting people for dancing in a
video tribute to a song called Happy is taking things to a new level of
dark irony even for the authoritarian Iranian authorities.
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