The Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani has been told she cannot return home after taking off her top in protest against enforced Islamism.
She has appeared topless in Madame Le Figaro and in a video commissioned for the Césars, the French Oscars. Farahani has worked with leading Hoolywood figures, among them Ridley Scott 
and Leonardo di Caprio (in Body of Lies). A Facebook support page has just opened. Join it.
Here’s the Césars video. And see previously here.
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