Correspondent in Istanbul
She will stop at nothing: neither death threats, nor legal intimidation, nor the bars of Evin prison.
This Saturday, March 16, around 10 a.m., four plainclothes police officers burst into the Tehran home of Sedigheh Vasmaghi.
Accused of
"propaganda against the Islamic Republic",
the Iranian theologian, known for her fierce opposition to the compulsory veil, is taken by force under the helpless gaze of her neighbors and her husband... but without a headscarf and with the firm intention of remaining head-on naked!
“She continues to refuse to wear it, even in prison.
And she has already announced that she will only appear in court if she does not cover her hair,”
her lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei, confided by telephone.
Reason given by her client: the veil has no justification in Islam.
Her unprecedented revolt, echoing the Woman, Life, Liberty movement, is all the more revolutionary as it attacks power over…
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