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Iranwire – An Iranian judge has sentenced a woman convicted of flouting the Islamic Republic’s mandatory headscarf rules to two years in prison.
As an alternative sentence, she was offered to work for one month as a body washer at a Tehran morgue and pay a fine of 3.1 million tomans ($60).
The inhumane ruling was handed down by Mohammad Hossein Esmail Morineh, head of Branch 104 of Varamin Criminal Court, near the capital.
The judge stated that the woman can appeal her conviction, but rulings against violators of the mandatory hijab law are definitive in Iran and cannot be appealed.
When the woman turned to an appeals court to overturn the ruling, her request was denied for that very reason.
In an act of defiance against the ideology and laws of the Islamic Republic, a growing number of women have appeared in public without hijab since nationwide protests erupted in September last year.
Some defiant women were arrested, summoned by the authorities and faced legal cases, while hundreds of small businesses and shopping malls were shut down for allegedly failing to enforce hijab rules on their customers.
Actress Afsaneh Baygan has recently received a two-year suspended prison sentence and a two-year travel ban for failing to cover their hair in public. She is also required to attend weekly psychotherapy sessions.
Azadeh Samadi, an actress who appeared in public while wearing a hat, must attend bi-weekly psychotherapy sessions to treat her “antisocial personality disorder.”
