An Iranian court sentenced the filmmaker and documentarian Mozhgan Ilanlu on Tuesday to almost ten years in prison and 74 lashes for having published photos in which she did not wear the veil, mandatory in the strict Islamic dress for women.
Ilanlu was sentenced to six years in prison for colluding against the country’s security, another 15 months for propaganda against the Islamic Republic, another 15 months for disorderly conduct and another 15 months for encouraging illegal acts, the reform-minded Shargh newspaper reported.
Detained since mid-October, the documentarian and human rights activist was also sentenced to 74 lashes, a fine of 80 million riyals (about 200 euros) and prohibited from leaving the country, joining social organizations or participating in media and advertising activities during two years. .
The filmmaker and women’s rights activist was arrested after photos of her appeared on social media showing her on the streets of Tehran without the mandatory headscarf and inviting other Iranians to take to the streets.
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These messages were interpreted as support for the large protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, after being detained by the police for not wearing the Islamic headscarf in accordance with Islamic law.
Ilanlu is one more person condemned for supporting or participating in these protests, of young people and women who demand more freedoms and the end of the Islamic Republic, and which the Iranian government has harshly repressed.
At least 2,000 people were accused by the Iranian Justice of various crimes for their participation in the mobilizations, 17 were sentenced to death, four were executed and hundreds were sentenced to prison.
Nearly 500 people were killed in the protests and nearly 20,000 were detained, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.
The protests lost strength significantly after the executions of the four demonstrators and in recent weeks there have been almost no demonstrations on the streets of the country.
Source: TSF
