Iranian women risk arrest as they remove their veils for #WhiteWednesday

[Zibago]

I agree with you that it was certainly highlighted after the protests but don't forget that the issue of woman rights is now hot all over the world , don't know if you followed the #MeToo campaign that started in the us but got responses all over the world.

With US trying desperately to change regime in Iran i woukdnt support it even if they get shot in the face Tillerson said US would use human rights to punish internationas rivals i wont buy this bs they care shit about women from any MENA country its all bs to push their imperialist agenda
If they really cared they woukd stop bombing civilians

 

[sammuel]

With US trying desperately to change regime in Iran i woukdnt support it even if they get shot in the face Tillerson said US would use human rights to punish internationas rivals i wont buy this bs they care shit about women from any MENA country its all bs to push their imperialist agenda
If they really cared they woukd stop bombing civilians

Governments usually follow interests , maybe it is too much to expect them to care or bot to care. As for the general public , from what we see online it does seem that this campaign has struck a chord.

 

[Solomon2]

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[Solomon2]

Facing a Decade in Prison for Hijab Protest, Iranian Woman Refuses to Repent

BY BRIDGET JOHNSON FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Narges Hosseini protests the hijab in Tehran. (Center for Human Rights in Iran)​

One of the women arrested in Iran for removing her hijab in protest refuses to repent to authorities even if that means she spends the next decade behind bars, her attorney said.

Narges Hosseini was arrested Jan. 29 after she posted a photo on social media in which she was waving her hijab on the street. She was first taken to Shahr-e Rey Prison, south of Tehran, with bail set too high for her family to afford.

She was one of the women in Tehran and Isfahan inspired to protest by Vida Movahed, whose image of waving a white hijab on a stick while standing on a platform on Revolution Street in Tehran at the end of December went viral. Movahed, 31, disappeared into an Iranian jail for a month.

Hosseini, 32, snubbed the regime officials who have levied charges against her that could carry up to 10 years in prison: “openly committing a harām [sinful] act," “violating public prudency” and “encouraging immorality or prostitution."

“Ms. Hosseini did not even appear in court to express remorse for her action," Hosseini’s lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran on Monday. "She said she objects to the forced hijab and considers it her legal right to express her protest."

“Ms. Hosseini is being held in difficult circumstances in Gharchak Prison [south of Tehran] but she is not prepared to say she is sorry,” Sotoudeh continued. “She believes she’s innocent.”

Imprisoned for three years starting in 2010 on charges of endangering national security, Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer, refused to wear a hijab in prison and "tolerated a lot of hardship" as a result.

Judicial officials are trying to tarnish Hosseini's reputation, calling her a drug addict -- accusations they also levied against Sina Ghanbari, 23, and Vahid Heydari, 22, two men arrested for protesting in December who died in custody. Sotoudeh said Hosseini "has never consumed drugs in her life."

Iran's semi-official Tasnim news declared last week that "following calls by satellite channels under a campaign called White Wednesdays, 29 of those who had been deceived to remove their hijab have been arrested by the police."

Protesters silently holding a hijab aloft have included men and religious women who are clothed government-approved coverings but are protesting in support of women who choose not to wear a headscarf.



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[AmirPatriot]

Not arrest.

 

[TurkeyForever]

Who is stripping what did I miss?

 

[sammuel]

Not arrest.

Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women

Police in Iran’s capital have arrested 29 women accused of being “deceived” into joining protests against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.

Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off their headscarves and waving them aloft on sticks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/tehran-hijab-protest-iranian-police-arrest-29-women

 

[AmirPatriot]

Tehran hijab protest: Iranian police arrest 29 women

Police in Iran’s capital have arrested 29 women accused of being “deceived” into joining protests against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.

Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto telecom boxes, taking off their headscarves and waving them aloft on sticks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/02/tehran-hijab-protest-iranian-police-arrest-29-women

Iranian women can no longer be arrested for not wearing hijab. They can, however, be arrested for protesting. I'm not defending it, just pointing out that there is a distinction.

 

[sammuel]

Iranian women can no longer be arrested for not wearing hijab. They can, however, be arrested for protesting. I'm not defending it, just pointing out that there is a distinction.

Thanks for the comment , i hope this is how it is going to be. Still illegal though and that is what must be changed as i see most here would agree.

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[sammuel]

 

[sammuel]

Iranian woman who removed headscarf jailed for two years

Prosecutor says woman took off obligatory hijab in Tehran street to ‘encourage corruption’

An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran’s compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday.

Tehran’s chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not give the woman’s identity but said she intended to appeal against the verdict, the judiciary’s Mizan Online news agency reported.

Dolatabadi said the unidentified woman took off her headscarf in Tehran’s Enghelab Street to “encourage corruption through the removal of the hijab in public”.

The woman will be eligible for parole after three months, but Dolatabadi criticised what he said was a “light” sentence and said he would push for the full two-year penalty.

More than 30 Iranian women have been arrested since the end of December forpublically removing their veils in defiance of the law.

Most have been released, but many are being prosecuted.

Women showing their hair in public in Iran are usually sentenced to far shorter terms of two months or less, and fined $25.

Iranian law, in place since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, stipulates that all women, Iranian or foreign, Muslim or non-Muslim, must be fully veiled in public at all times.

But the zeal of the country’s morality police has declined in the past two decades, and a growing number of Iranian women in Tehran and other large cities often wear loose veils that reveal their hair.

In some areas of the capital, women are regularly seen driving cars with veils draped over their shoulders.

Dolatabadi said he would no longer accept such behaviour, and had ordered the impound of vehicles driven by socially rebellious women.

The prosecutor said some “tolerance” was possible when it came to women who wear the veil loosely, “but we must act with force against people who deliberately question the rules on the Islamic veil”, according to Mizan Online.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-who-removed-headscarf-sentenced-to-two-years

 

[mangekyo]

I 100% support the decision to arrest these traitors. What were they trying to accomplish? "Protesting" against hijab in the middle of a nationwide riot? Obviously they had a completely different agenda. Rot in prison.

 

[Metanoia]

#StopTheWarAgainstHijab

 

[sammuel]

I 100% support the decision to arrest these traitors. What were they trying to accomplish? "Protesting" against hijab in the middle of a nationwide riot? Obviously they had a completely different agenda. Rot in prison.

What different agenda would justify been thrown to prison for two Years ?

There is no agenda that would justify that , matters not what they where protesting there is no reason to arrest them. I see you don't believe in giving even minimum human rights to your own people.

Sad.

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[313ghazi]

So these women run the same risk that women in France, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Bulgeria, Denmark and Latvia do if they were to choose to wear certain items of clothing?