"Iranian Activist Gets 15 Years for Removing Her Hijab in Public"

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Iranian Activist Gets 15 Years for Removing Her Hijab in Public


Saba Kord Afshari, 20, has been sentenced to 24 years in jail for participating in protests in Iran, including 15 years for removing her hijab. (Twitter)

An Iranian women's rights activist has been jailed for a total of 24 years - including a 15-year term for 'spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab'.

Saba Kord Afshari, 20, was handed the sentence Tuesday by Tehran's Revolutionary Court after being found guilty of removing her headscarf as well as 'spreading propaganda against the state' and 'assembly and collusion'.

Afshari and her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi, had been prominent members of the White Wednesdays protest group, which spoke out against the compulsory hijab.

The pair routinely posted videos of themselves walking around the streets of Tehran without their headscarves to encourage other women to flout the law.

[Harry Black]

Brave woman.
 We have a long way to go to be done with inhuman regimes like Iran and its ilk.

[random poet]

Barely a generation ago, Iran was a free country. This is a brand new thing. I am confident this oppression could go away just as quickly.

[gebobs]

Barely a generation ago, Iran was a free country. This is a brand new thing. I am confident this oppression could go away just as quickly.

A free country? Iran? A generation ago? What?

[CarbShark]

Before the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists overthrew the Shaw and oppressed everyone the Shaw oppressed the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists.


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[Rai]

Before the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists overthrew the Shaw and oppressed everyone the Shaw oppressed the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists.


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More like before the CIA and MI6 deposed the well-liked democratically elected secular government for daring to decolonise their oil production and replaced it with a hated right-wing authoritarian regime.

[CarbShark]

Before the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists overthrew the Shaw and oppressed everyone the Shaw oppressed the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists.


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More like before the CIA and MI6 deposed the well-liked democratically elected secular government for daring to decolonise their oil production and replaced it with a hated right-wing authoritarian regime.

That was one generation ago? How long is a generation?

I have no idea if Iran was a "free country" back then or not.

[Rai]

Before the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists overthrew the Shaw and oppressed everyone the Shaw oppressed the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists.


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More like before the CIA and MI6 deposed the well-liked democratically elected secular government for daring to decolonise their oil production and replaced it with a hated right-wing authoritarian regime.

That was one generation ago? How long is a generation?

I have no idea if Iran was a "free country" back then or not.

1953 is not that long ago

[CarbShark]

Before the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists overthrew the Shaw and oppressed everyone the Shaw oppressed the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists.


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More like before the CIA and MI6 deposed the well-liked democratically elected secular government for daring to decolonise their oil production and replaced it with a hated right-wing authoritarian regime.

That was one generation ago? How long is a generation?

I have no idea if Iran was a "free country" back then or not.

1953 is not that long ago

Some people born in 1953 are grandparents and some are great-grandparents. I think that counts as more than a generation.

[Harry Black]

I dont think disagreeing on how long a generation is invalidates the point?

[CarbShark]

I dont think disagreeing on how long a generation is invalidates the point?

It's more of a question.

Is the point that Iran was free when the Shah was in power, or was Iran free pre-Shah?

There was oppression under the Shah, and that oppression led to his overthrow.

[Harry Black]

Would you disagree that it has been free at some point in the last 70 years?

[CarbShark]

Would you disagree that it has been free at some point in the last 70 years?

I don't know how to answer that.

Was it free before 1953? I don't know.

There was more freedom under the Shah than now, but there was also political and religious oppression. I would not call that free.

When the Ayatollah and the fundamentalists took over there may have been a brief moment when people thought they were free, but that evaporated pretty quickly.

It's been a politically, religiously, culturally and socially oppressive regime from the start.

[arthwollipot]

Define "free".

[CarbShark]

Define "free".

Free country: no religious, political or cultural suppression by  government, religion  or other institutions


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