The two bloggers Astiyaj Haghighi, 21, and Amirmohammad Ahmadi, 22, arrested on November 1 for posting a video showing them dancing in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran, were sentenced to a total of 22 years in prison, 10, 5 years each, in addition to a two-year ban on the use of social networks and the ban on leaving the country for another two years.
Astiyaj Haghighi and her boyfriend, deprived of the right to choose lawyers, were accused of "propaganda against the system" and "encouragement of corruption and prostitution".