Women's right activist is sentenced to 24 years in jail for 'spreading prostitution by taking off her Hijab'
A WOMEN’S rights activist has been jailed for a total of 24 years - including 15 for "spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab" in Iran.2The Islamic Republic found the 20-year-old guilty of removing her headscarf as well as “spreading propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion”.Saba and her mum, Raheleh Ahmadi, had been prominent members of the White Wednesdays protest group, which objected to compulsory hijab-wearing in Iran.
She was first collared in the Iranian capital in August last year and jailed for a year, Iran Human Rights Monitor reports.She was first collared in the Iranian capital in August last year and jailed for a year but was released in FebruaryShe was released in February but continued to protest against human rights abuses by the Iranian regime, which saw her re-arrested in June.It was then that human rights groups say she was forced into making video confessions of her “crimes”.
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