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Hoda Niku, an Iranian mannequin based mostly in Korea, appeals for assist for Iranian protests in a video posted to her Instagram. Captured from Hoda Niku’s Instagram
A video message from Hoda Niku, an Iranian influencer in Korea, asking Koreans to assist intensifying anti-government protests in her house nation, has gone viral.
Niku posted a video titled “For Iran’s Freedom” on her Instagram account on Saturday. Talking in Korean, she started, “As somebody who loves each my nations, Iran and Korea, I’m sharing this video within the hope that the voices of the Iranian individuals may be heard extra broadly.”
“I kindly ask you to pay slightly extra consideration to information about Iran,” she pleaded. “Even displaying assist for the braveness of the Iranian individuals offers us nice power.”
Protesters march within the streets of Tehran, Jan. 8. AP-Yonhap
Anti-government protests in Iran have continued for greater than two weeks, with casualties rising sharply as a result of authorities’s bloody crackdown.
Based on the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists Information Company (HRANA) on Tuesday (native time), the dying toll has reached about 2,000, together with 1,847 protesters and 135 authorities personnel comparable to army and police. Greater than 16,700 individuals have been arrested.
Iran Worldwide, a U.Ok.-based anti-Tehran media outlet, reported the identical day that “no less than 12,000 individuals have been killed in Iran within the largest killing within the nation’s modern historical past, a lot of it carried out on Jan. 8 and 9.”
Hoda Niku condemns the “bloodbath” of protesters in Iran amid an web blackout in an Instagram submit. Captured from Hoda Niku’s Instagram
Niku spoke out in opposition to the Iranian regime.
“Iranians have lengthy taken half in lots of protests in pursuit of freedom and democracy,” she mentioned. “Throughout that point, pressure was usually used to silence individuals’s voices and lots of lives have been sadly affected (misplaced).”
The influencer additionally vented anger in one other Instagram submit Tuesday. “Hundreds have misplaced their lives whereas the web is totally minimize off. If this is not a bloodbath, what ought to we name it?”
Iranian mannequin Hoda Niku seems on KBS’s “My Neighbor, Charles,” aired on April 19, 2022. Seize from KBS1
Niku, who positioned third in Miss Iran 2018, presently works in Korea as a mannequin, TV persona and YouTuber. She has greater than 526,000 followers on Instagram.
Concerning her resolution to maneuver to Korea, she beforehand mentioned on a TV program, “I grew up as the one daughter of a rich household wanting for nothing, however I got here to Korea as a result of I hated the rules that pressured me to put on a hijab and banned many issues just because I’m a lady.”
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Occasions, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Occasions.
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