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Old 09-15-2014, 01:26 AM   #49 (permalink)
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Pharrell Williams' "Happy" song has inadvertantly become an activist song after Iranian police arrested six Tehran female and male college students in May, 2014, because they posted a video of themselves dancing on a rooftop (very well!) to his music.

Amnesty International UK's Head of Campaigns, Champa Patel, "condemned the trial and told MailOnline: 'Arresting people for dancing in a video tribute to a song called Happy is taking things to a new level of dark irony even for the authoritarian Iranian authorities.'"

Youths on trial in Iran for posting YouTube video dancing to Pharrell Williams' 'Happy' song | Mail Online

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/201...ype=blogs&_r=0

Here's to people who are enjoying being happy in a room without a roof of limitations above them. They should be able to do that without the police arresting them because they are "hurting public chastity."

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