An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran\u2019s compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Tehran\u2019s chief prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not give the woman\u2019s identity but said she intended to appeal against the verdict, the judiciary\u2019s Mizan Online news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Dolatabadi said the unidentified woman took off her headscarf in Tehran\u2019s Enghelab Street to \u201cencourage corruption through the removal of the hijab in public\u201d.<\/p>\n
The woman will be eligible for parole after three months, but Dolatabadi criticised what he said was a \u201clight\u201d sentence and said he would push for the full two-year penalty.<\/p>\n
More than 30 Iranian women have been arrested since the end of December for publically removing their veils in defiance of the law.<\/p>\n
Most have been released, but many are being prosecuted.<\/p>\n
Women showing their hair in public in Iran are usually sentenced to far shorter terms of two months or less, and fined $25.<\/p>\n
Iranian law, in place since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, stipulates that all women, Iranian or foreign, Muslim or non-Muslim, must be fully veiled in public at all times.<\/p>\n
But the zeal of the country\u2019s morality police has declined in the past two decades, and a growing number of Iranian women in Tehran and other large cities often wear loose veils that reveal their hair.<\/p>\n
In some areas of the capital, women are regularly seen driving cars with veils draped over their shoulders.<\/p>\n
Dolatabadi said he would no longer accept such behaviour, and had ordered the impound of vehicles driven by socially rebellious women.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said some \u201ctolerance\u201d was possible when it came to women who wear the veil loosely, \u201cbut we must act with force against people who deliberately question the rules on the Islamic veil\u201d, according to Mizan Online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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