According to media reports, an engineer was sentenced to 74 lashes after a protest against the headscarf requirement in Iran. As the Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw announced on Saturday, the sentence was suspended for five years.
Zeynab Kazempour attracted a lot of attention in February because she demonstratively threw her headscarf to the ground during a speech at an event. Video footage of the action was widely shared on the internet.
Protests against the mandatory headscarf
The woman had protested against the decision of an engineering association not to nominate her for board elections because of an ill-fitting headscarf.
Since the death of Iranian Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody about a year ago, many women in the country’s major cities have ignored the obligation to wear a headscarf in protest against the Islamic rule system. Amini was arrested for allegedly violating the applicable dress code.
Source: Krone
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