Tuesday 19 November 2024

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Women Protesting Against Mandatory Headscarfs Was Sentenced To 2 Years in Prison

According to Iranian-based Entekhab news agency, Tehran Chief Prosecutor Abbas Jaafari State-Aba, speaking to journalists in the capital Tehran, said that  woman protesting against the headscarf obligation was sentenced to 2 years in prison. The governor, who did not giv e activists name, blamed her for “encouraging the people to corruption by taking off the headscarf on public”. A woman named Vida Movahed, who participated in protest for economic progress in Iran, climbed over a distribution box on the Enghelab Street in Tehran to protest the mandatory headscarf rule, shaking a headscarf attached to a stick. After this protest of Movahed, other women in Iran carried out similar actions on Tehran Avenue. Despite statements of government officials that the headscarf would be liberated, Persian fascism once again showed its face, and woman arrested on the Day of Women’s Day, using the right to protest for her own freedom.

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