“The convicted, Roya Heshmati, inspired permissiveness (by showing) disgracefully in busy public locations in Tehran,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online web site mentioned late on Saturday.
“Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out by the regulation and with sharia,” and “for violating public morals,” Mizan mentioned.
All ladies in Iran have been required by regulation to cowl their neck and head since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Whippings for breaching the costume code are unusual in Iran, though officers have more and more cracked down on these defying the principles after the follow surged throughout anti-government protests that started in late 2022.
Those protests have been triggered by the September 2022 demise in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested for an alleged breach of the Islamic Republic’s strict costume code for girls.
During the protests, feminine demonstrators threw off their headscarves and even burned them. Other ladies additionally started more and more to flout the costume code, resulting in a crackdown.
Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw recognized Heshmati as a 33-year-old lady of Kurdish origins.
She was arrested in April “for publishing a photograph on social media with out carrying a scarf,” her lawyer Maziar Tatai informed the reformist Shargh day by day.
Heshmati was additionally ordered to pay a positive of 12 million rials (round $25) for “not carrying the Muslim veil in public”, Tatai mentioned.
Officials have put in surveillance cameras in public locations to observe violations and have shut down companies that breached the principles.
Iran’s parliament has additionally mentioned a invoice that will toughen penalties for many who violate the costume code.