Nazanin Boniadi Instagram – In May 2018, Maedeh Hojabri, an Iranian teenager, shared videos of herself dancing on Instagram, where she had hundreds of thousands of followers. Shortly after, security agents arrested her and later forced her into making a televised confession on state TV admitting that dancing is a crime. In response to her arrest, supporters worldwide posted videos of themselves dancing on social media, using the hashtag #DancingIsNotACrime. Iranian-British actress Nazanin Boniadi expressed solidarity with Maedeh Hojabri in a video op-ed for The New York Times in July 2018, calling for an end to gender apartheid in Iran. Six years have passed since Maedeh’s arrest, yet the conditions for women’s rights and freedoms in Iran continue to deteriorate under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s decades-long gender apartheid regime. ✍️ Nazanin Boniadi is a key signatory of the @endgenderapartheid.today campaign, which is working to codify gender apartheid as a crime against humanity under international law. Note: This video was published in the NYT on July 21, 2018. #EndGenderApartheid #WomanLifeFreedom