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05/23/14 11:40 PM

#222793 RE: F6 #222772

'Happy' video dancers, but not director, freed in Iran, group says

By Saad Abedine and Holly Yan, CNN
updated 7:06 PM EDT, Wed May 21, 2014

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Arrested 'Happy' Iranians freed on bail

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

* NEW: All six dancers were freed; the director was not, a human rights group says
* Iranians are accused of making an "obscene" video that "offended the public morals"
* Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweets: "#Happiness is our people's right"
* The hashtag #FreeHappyIranians has gone viral on Twitter

(CNN) -- Six people who were arrested in Iran for dancing in a YouTube video to Pharrell Williams' song "Happy" have been
freed, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said Wednesday, citing a source close to the families.

The director of the video was not released, the group said.

One of the six announced that she was freed. "Hi I'm back," Reihane Taravati wrote on her Instagram account, thanking Williams and "everyone who cared about us."

more - http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/21/world/meast/iran-happy-video-arrests/

.. lol .. loved the 'slut' video in yours .. hahaha .. it brought back memories of how i used to ''ave a go'
at fellow teenagers for their dooooble standards whenever they used the word .. it prompted this post ..