Mahsa Farhadi Archives - KHRN

January 9, 2023

Kurdish woman given two years in jail for not wearing veil

The Branch 2 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in the city of Shahriar, Tehran province, has sentenced Kurdish woman Mahsa Farhadi to two years in prison in the past few days for not wearing a headscarf. The court charged the 21-year-old woman with "assembly and collusion with the intent to disrupt national security", Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Security forces "beat and arrested Farhadi...

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