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For this photo she is punished with 74 lashes and 10 years in prison

2023-01-19T16:35:36.230Z


An Iranian revolutionary court sentenced documentary filmmaker Mozhgan Ilanlu after she posted two photos without the mandatory Islamic headscarf.


An Iranian revolutionary court on Tuesday sentenced documentary filmmaker Mozhgan Ilanlu to

nearly ten years in prison and 74 lashes

after she was arrested after posting photos without

the mandatory Islamic headscarf.

Ilanlu was sentenced to six years in prison for colluding against the security of the country;

to 15 months for propaganda against the Islamic Republic;

to 15 months for public disorder and another 15 months for encouraging illegal acts, the reformist

Shargh daily reported.

She has also been sentenced to

74 lashes,

to pay a fine of 80 million rials

(200 dollars)

and is prohibited from leaving the country, being part of social organizations or participating in media and propaganda activities for two years.

Documentary filmmaker Mozhgan Ilanlu will receive 74 lashes.

The filmmaker and activist for women's rights was arrested in mid-October after the publication on social networks of photos in which she appeared on the streets of Tehran without the mandatory veil and in which she invited other Iranians to go out into the streets. .

These messages were interpreted as support for the protests unleashed by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody after being arrested by the Morality Police for not wearing the Islamic veil properly.

executions continue

After his arrest

, he spent 40 days in solitary confinement

at Evin Prison, where he also suffered an accident and

broke his leg.

Ilanlu is the latest person to be sentenced for his support or participation in protests led by young people and women calling for more freedoms and the end of the Islamic Republic.

At least

2,000 people have been accused

by the Iranian Justice of various crimes for their participation in the demonstrations,

17 have been sentenced to death

, four have been executed and hundreds have been sentenced to prison terms.

Documentary filmmaker Mozhgan Ilanlu and her second photo without the obligatory Islamic veil (Instagram).

The Iranian government has strongly repressed the mobilizations, carried out above all by young people and women who demand more freedoms shouting "woman, life, freedom.

Nearly 500 people have been killed in the protests

and nearly 20,000 have been detained, according to the Oslo-based NGO Iran Human Rights.

The protests have lost strength significantly after the executions of the four protesters and in recent weeks there have hardly been any mobilizations on the streets of the Persian country.

EFE Agency.

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