Iran sentences two younger males to 10 years in jail for posting a video of them dancing with no veil in downtown Tehran


Section 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court considers Amir Ahmadi and his accomplice, Astiaj Haghighi, responsible of the crimes of “fostering corruption” The sentence, dated January 29, additionally prohibits the defendants from having Internet exercise and go away Iran for 2 years Women are prohibited from dancing on the street and the case is much more severe for doing it with a person

An Iranian court docket has sentenced a younger couple aged 21 and 22 to 10 and a half years in jail for posting a video on social networks dancing in Azadi Square – Freedom Square – in downtown Tehran. She was not carrying a veil.

Section 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court considers Amir Ahmadi and his accomplice, Astiaj Haghighi, responsible of the crimes of “fomenting corruption” and “conspiring towards nationwide safety and to unfold propaganda” towards the Islamic Republic, in accordance with the Iranian information portal in exile IranWire.

The ruling, dated January 29, additional prohibits the defendants from having Internet exercise and leaving Iran for 2 years after they serve their sentences.

Women are prohibited from dancing on the street and the case is much more severe for doing it with a person, even whether it is, as on this case, her fiancé.

The two have been detained on November 1 by plainclothes officers who beat them and took them to Section 209 of the Intelligence Ministry, in accordance with vital Iranian media. Neither of them had the help of a lawyer through the trial, as is their proper, and their request for bail was rejected. The households of each would have been pressured by the authorities in order that they didn’t discuss in regards to the case.

More than 500 folks have been killed and 18,000 have been arrested within the newest wave of protests, which started in September on account of the dying of Iranian-Kurdish Mahsa Amini after being arrested for allegedly carrying the Islamic scarf incorrectly. About twenty protesters have been sentenced to dying for the reason that begin of the protests and 4 have already been executed.