In Iran, a girl was whipped 74 occasions for “violating public morals” by posting a photograph together with her head uncovered. The girl, recognized as 33-year-old Roya Heshmati, was additionally fined for not protecting her head, mentioned the Iranian judiciary.
Encouraging permissiveness
On the Judiciary’s Mizan on-line web site, an announcement posted late on Saturday (Jan 6) mentioned: “The convicted, Roya Heshmati, inspired permissiveness (by showing) disgracefully in busy public locations in Tehran.”
“Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the legislation and with Sharia,” and “for violating public morals,” added Mizan, as reported by AFP information company.
A Kurdish human rights group, Hengaw, has recognized Heshmati as a girl of Kurdish origins, who’s an outspoken critic of the Islamic regime’s hijab legislation.
Talking to Shargh every day, a well-liked reformist newspaper, Heshmati’s lawyer Maziar Tatai mentioned that the lady was arrested in April “for publishing a photograph on social media with out sporting a headband.”
She was additionally ordered to pay a high-quality of 12 million rials (round $285) for “not sporting the Muslim veil in public”.
Tatai, as per Entekhab, additionally alleged that the fees in opposition to Heshmati had been modified a number of occasions. Throughout the method at completely different occasions, she was charged with “propaganda in opposition to the regime,” “being within the streets with no spiritual hijab,” “harming public modesty,” “producing vulgar content material,” and “encouraging individuals to commit corruption.”
‘I’d not yield’
The defiant girl, as per The Jerusalem Post, eliminated her hijab upon coming into the court docket the place her flogging was to happen.
Even although her lawyer and an worker cautioned her and requested her to don the scarf “to keep away from bother,” Heshmati mentioned that she “got here particularly for the lashes, and I’d not yield”.
She was even ordered to placed on the hijab by the officer who carried out her flogging. However, regardless of threats of extra extreme whipping and an extra 74 lashes, Heshamti refused to take action.
“I maintained my stance and didn’t put on the hijab,” she mentioned, as per an account of the flogging shared by Hengaw.
She described the room the place she was flogged as a “totally outfitted medieval torture chamber.”