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Iranian women face 10 years for sharing videos of hijab removal

July 29, 2019
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By: Ahmed Vahdat

Iranian officials have warned that posting video footage of women removing their mandatory headscarves in public could lead to up 10 years imprisonment, according to media reports yesterday.

The announcement specifically named the US-based social media platform of Masih Alinejad, which since 2014 has been inviting Iranian women to post pictures of themselves without the hijab.

Ms Alinejad has been accused by the Iranian regime of working as an agent of the US government over the website, known as My Stealthy Freedom.

Yasman Aryani beaten up in jail as more anti compulsory hijab protesters are arrested

July 15, 2019
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Yasaman Aryani, who was arrested and detained since April has been beaten up in Qarchak prison, according to sources close to the family. Islamic Republic judiciary is deliberately incarcerating activists and political dissidents along with those convicted of violent and drug-related crimes.
Raheleh Ahmadi, Saba Kord Afshari’s mother, was arrested by security forces on July 9, 2019. According to their family, she is arrested to put pressure on her detained daughter who has denied giving forced video confessions. Ahmadi was taken to a court where her accusations were explained as “propaganda against the state”, “collaboration with foreign media”, and “encouraging corruption and prostitution”. She was then transferred to the Qarchak prison. However, as of now, her whereabouts are unknown.

Some Iranian Women Take Off Hijabs as Hard-Liners Push Back

July 15, 2019
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By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMAD NASIR

TEHRAN, Iran — The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for a young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran’s streets without a compulsory headscarf, or hijab.

With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran’s morality police whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

“I have to confess it is really, really scary,” the 30-year-old fire-safety consultant said in a WhatsApp audio message, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.

Amnesty International Says Iran using coercion to obtain forced confessions

July 15, 2019
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Iran’s authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members in order to extract forced video “confessions” from women’s rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country’s discriminatory forced veiling (hijab) laws, said Amnesty International.

The organization has identified a pattern of at least six such cases since April 2019. In one of them, a young women’s rights defender has been subjected to enforced disappearance defender from 2 to 13 July.

Now Iranian activists

July 3, 2019
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Can you believe that these women have been under pressure to give false confessions for such a peaceful act of protest against compulsory hijab?
Noe Iranian activists tweeting #FreeOurWomen urging authorities to release them. We call on all our sisters worldwide to be our voice