Iranian woman sentenced 2 years for photo without headscarf

The facade of the Iranian embassy in London is stained with red paint on September 26, 2022. - Iran is stepping up arrests of activists and journalists in a crackdown against civil society as anti-regime protests continue to rage nationwide following the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, activists said. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP)

(Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP

A shop owner in Iran has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said on Friday.

According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.”

The woman from south-western Iran had attracted attention as part of the nationwide protests when the authorities had her shop shut.

In September 2022, the death of a young Kurdish woman, Jina Mahsa Amini, triggered the largest protests in the history of the Islamic republic.

For months, young people, in particular, took to the streets to demonstrate against the Islamic system of rule.

Amini fell into a coma after an allegedly violent clash with the morality police, and died shortly afterwards.

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