The ‘Festival of Fire’ is a celebration of more than 1,700 years old, but on the night of this Tuesday it became something else on the streets of Iran. The Iranians took advantage of the Persian New Year’s Eve celebration to reactivate the protest for women’s Human Rights.

In almost all major cities and in many neighborhoods, anonymous women gathered around the bonfires that are usually lit at this festival. However, on this occasion, what they burned were their own veils shouting “Life, woman and freedom“.

This is precisely one of the peculiarities of this new social outbreak: the protests they were not encouraged by activistsbut apolitical women of all ages and conditions. Little did the women and the demonstrators care that the Iranian government deployed hundreds of police officers and motorized agents, according to complaints from Iranian activist organizations.

The protests returned to demand an end to the religious dictatorship and the release of jailed protesters. Among them, the five girls who on March 8 recorded themselves dancing in a Tehran neighborhood and were later located, forced to denounce and imprisoned.

In solidarity with them, hundreds of Iranian women have posted videos on the networks dancing to the same song and exposing himself also to be punished.