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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
David Batty

Iranian artists call for boycott of cultural institutions with links to regime

Shirin Neshat’s Woman Life Freedom at Piccadilly Circus in London
Shirin Neshat’s Woman Life Freedom at Piccadilly Circus in London. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

Dozens of Iranian artists have called for an international boycott of cultural institutions run by or affiliated with the Islamic Republic in protest against the regime’s worsening human rights abuses.

The call by artists, writers, film-makers and academics living in Iran and among its diaspora comes amid growing anti-government art activism by Iranians inside and outside the country after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

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