IRANIAN news agency Fars doctored pictures of Michelle Obama at the Oscars in accordance with the country's restrictions on images of the female body in the media. The company photoshopped the US First Lady's silver Naeem Khan dress so that it covered her chest and shoulders.
Obama wore the dress to present the Oscars' Best Picture category, via a video link from the White House. Current rules implemented by Iran's media censors state that women on Iranian state television should wear a hijab that covers their hair, arms and legs. The rules vary for foreigners.
Photoshopping foreign celebrities and political figures is a tact that has been used by the Islamic censorship regime before, with film actors sometimes being edited frame by frame to protect their modesty and on occasions even deleted from a scene altogether, The Guardian reports.
In May 2011, an H&M campaign starring Gisele Bündchen was altered in the Middle East, after being declared too risqué in Dubai. Images of the supermodel wearing a playsuit, a halterneck top and a dress were photoshopped, so that T-shirts and vests were layered underneath to make the pictures less revealing.
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ELLA ALEXANDER | February 26, 2013 | Article Link
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