A young Iranian couple was found guilty on Tuesday, January 31, of “encouraging corruption with the intent to undermine national security” against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ten years in prison. Here is the price of freedom for a few minutes in Tehran. On Tuesday, January 31, Astiaj Haghighi and his companion Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, aged 21 and 22 respectively, were sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison. In October 2022, the influential couple posted a video on their social networks in which they dance in love in front of one of the main monuments of the Iranian capital, the Azad Tower, also called the Freedom Tower.
The young woman was not veiled and her hair was open. In Iran, young women are required to wear the Islamic veil and are prohibited from dancing in public.
As reported by the media Iranwire: , after the publication of this video, he and his friend were arrested. Beaten during their capture, they would then be transferred to District 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence and await their trial.
Deprived of their rights
The couple was found guilty of “propaganda of corruption, assembly and treason to undermine national security and spread propaganda” against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In addition, the ban on using the Internet and leaving the country for two years after serving the sentence is added to the years of their imprisonment, explains the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
In response to the NGO’s question, the sources close to the two influencers said that the latter were deprived of lawyers during the entire court process. Astiaj Haghighi is currently in Karjak women’s prison, whose detention conditions are regularly condemned by human rights activists.
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symbol of protest
This arrest follows a wave of protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran on September 16, 2022, in a crackdown by morality police. The young woman was arrested three days ago for “wearing an inappropriate veil”.
The anti-regime rebellion is intensifying in the country, led by the young generation in search of freedom. In protest, thousands of women have marched through the city’s streets in recent months. A slogan was even created by these Iranian women: “Zan, zendegi, azadi” (“Woman, life, freedom”).
Source: Le Figaro
