Maedeh Hojabri is your average 19-year-old girl. She has a fervent passion for dance and used Instagram to share videos of herself dancing in her bedroom with her 600,000-plus followers. Little did she know that her peers would also use the platform to express their support of her right to do so.

In May, Maedeh’s account disappeared, The Guardian reported, leaving her many fans wondering where she had gone. They received their answer last Tuesday, according to the The New York Times, which reported that the 19-year-old appeared on a local TV show called Wrong Path, apologizing for dancing to Western music and confessing that by doing so, she was committing a crime.

“It wasn’t for attracting attention. I had some followers and these videos were for them,” she said in the video. “I did not have any intention to encourage others doing the same … I didn’t work with a team, I received no training. I only do gymnastics.”

As the BBC explained, Maedeh and several other popular Instagram personalities were arrested for violating Iran’s dancing ban, which governs against Iranian women publicly dancing where members of the opposite sex might see them. Iranian women are only legally permitted to dance in front of immediate family members.

Outraged, Iranians have also taken to Instagram to post their support of Maedeh and disapproval of her arrest, The New York Times reported. Many of their messages utilize a hashtag that translates to #dancing_isn’t_a_crime, and the BBC notes that the videos feature people publicly dancing in a similar fashion, with the intention of letting the Iranian authorities know that “they cannot take away our happiness and hope,” as one Twitter user wrote.

This is not the first time in recent history that people in Iran have been arrested for breaking the ban. According to The Guardian, six Iranian citizens were seized in 2016 for posting videos of themselves dancing on the streets and rooftops of Tehran to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy.” The dancers, much like Maedeh, made national televised confessions to their wrongdoings. They were sentenced to a year in prison and 91 lashes, a ruling which The Washington Post reported was later suspended. While these dancers chose to dance publicly, and Maedeh was dancing within the privacy of her bedroom without one, their intent appeared to be the same: to express their happiness through performance, while moving to Western music.

Iranian authorities have blocked Twitter and Facebook from the country’s Internet since 2009, The New York Times reported — although many people have managed to circumnavigate the censors to make accounts. Though owned by Facebook, Instagram remains one of the only social media applications to which Iranian citizens legally have access, and now some conservatives, such as hard-line analyst Hamidreza Taraghi, are calling it a “mischevious tool” that must be blocked, the Times reported. What many American teenagers take for granted daily has become a privilege that their Iranian peers must fight to maintain.

However, some Iranian citizens and even some in power don’t appear to agree with Taraghi’s point of view. In fact, according to a report by the Center for Human Rights in Iran , the theocratic government considered lifitng the nine-year ban as recently as March 2018. Saeed Mahdiyoun, the deputy director in charge of drafting regulations for Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council (SCC), even stated that he believed social media networks should be fundamentally reexamined, because “Military and state officials, as well as people, are interacting there and as a result, this social media has become an effective means of public diplomacy and international dialogue.”