00:00This is Hiva Sefizadeh, an Iranian classical music singer.
00:23She was arrested on February 27th while singing at a concert in Tehran.
00:28The Iranian regime does not allow women to sing in public, except to women-only audiences with authorizations granted very rarely.
00:36But more and more Iranian women are defying the ban by sharing their songs on social media, making music videos, and even organizing underground concerts.
00:45They've gotten bolder since the Woman Life Freedom protests, staging more and more concerts.
00:50But there has been a crackdown.
00:52Sefizadeh and her band were detained for two days and questioned.
00:56The concert venue was shut down and their Instagram page taken over by Iran's cyber police, on grounds that its content was contrary to morality and public decency.
01:07Sefizadeh is one of at least seven female singers arrested in Iran in recent weeks.
01:12Sefizadeh and her band's sesquizadeh.
01:24All seven of these women were arrested and questioned by police.
01:49In each case, the singer's social media accounts
01:52were taken over by the cyber police
01:54or their contents simply removed.
01:56However, this is just the tip of the iceberg
01:58according to Justina, an Iranian rapper
02:01who now lives in exile.
02:02We first featured Justina on The Observers back in 2015
02:23when female singers routinely hid their faces.
02:26You see her here, her face painted black and white.
02:29Justina was arrested in 2019,
02:34sentenced to two years in prison and fled Iran.
02:37She says things have changed.
02:39The difference between women and women and women and women
02:45We still have more people.
02:47Our people have to leave this way.
02:49They have to get deeper and more.
02:51They have to start with the music and the music industry.
02:55They have to go through the music industry.
02:57They have to get a little bit more than us.
03:01They have to get better.
03:03We have to get a lot more than them.
03:05They have to get into the music industry.
03:07They have to get to the music industry and stuff.
03:09The government has to control the women's skills.
03:11The women have control of their lives.
03:13They can change their lives.
03:15Some of them say that they don't want to do anything.
03:19Some of them say that they need to do something that we want.
03:23They can change things with a lot of pressure and pressure.
03:27They can change things like this.
03:31They have to be a group of women.
03:35They have to be a group of women.
03:37and I think that it's up and there's a little bit of work
03:42that's like a jacket that's in the government
03:45and it shows that it's not going to be able to show it
03:48and the other thing is that it's not going to be able to do it.
04:04This is what's known in Senegal as a car rapid,
04:06car rapide or a fast bus. They have been in use since the 1970s. Originally imported
04:12by French carmaker Renault, they have become colorful symbols of Senegalese culture. But
04:17they are now being taken out of service. Hassan Niang says they will be missed.
04:36There are a lot of messages. It's the message of faith, of the state of spirit. We often see
04:41Bahiaï, saying that my mom is very good and very generous. Nid Deimanou, saying that
04:47man must be discreet, open to spirit. The Senegalese people is a very sad people. It's a
04:55people of contact. And it's the car rapide that allows us to have this space. In a
05:01car rapide, we have the way to discuss with our friends. It's a very warm moment, which
05:08is not the case in other transport methods. The car rapide are being phased out. Forty
05:14years old, they are being replaced by buses with modern technology. Our observer hopes to
05:20preserve their memory. I admit that the car rapide goes a lot, because it's using gas
05:26a lot of traffic. It's a lot of traffic. It's a lot of traffic. It's a lot of traffic.
05:33But one of the most important ways in Dakar is the car rapide. And often it's the tariff
05:36that doesn't move. It's a way to help many, many compatriots to be able to survive in the
05:41time of the city. Otherwise, at night, it's very difficult to find a transport way. There are
05:46cars rapides who are in Dakar to help those who work at night.
05:50Hassan has put together a collective called Car Rapide Tours that educates tourists about
05:55the buses.
05:56To have a car rapide, it's a kind of a voice of disappearance in Dakar.
06:01He's hoping to gather painters and artists to preserve what grew into a Senegalese art form.
06:06That's it for this week. As always, you can find more reports from our observers on our
06:25website, observers.france34.com. I'll see you next time.
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