Iranian woman jailed for posting photo without headscarf
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 southwestern 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.
Ms Amini fell into a coma after an allegedly violent clash with the morality police and died shortly afterwards.
(dpa/NAN)
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