Harsh penalties for those who do not wear the veil, Iran is not backing down. Deputy Prosecutor Abdolsamad Khorramabadi intervened on state television to ensure that “women who do not comply with the mandatory veil and find themselves in public places without the hijab are committing a blatant crime and the police are responsible, those who are not.” do, confront and arrest harshly, respect the law and report them to the judiciary.” “Starting with orders from the Supreme Judiciary and the Prosecutor, judges should sentence those who do not respect the law to additional sentences and fine them evidence if they have taken serious preventive measures against this problem,” Khorramabadi stressed. The judiciary’s order also applies to those who do not fully cover their hair. Under the Islamic Penal Code in Iran, women who do not wear the veil are punishable by imprisonment from 10 days to 2 mo naten, a penalty that may be replaced by a fine, exile, disqualification, dismissal, a ban on joining political parties or organizations, a ban on leaving the country, or the obligation to perform public works free of charge. The punishment for women who provoke others not to wear the veil can be more severe and even include 10 years imprisonment.
The accusation of the UN. “The use of criminal procedure as a weapon to punish people who exercise their fundamental rights, such as those who take part in or organize demonstrations, is tantamount to murder” by the state. With this, the head of the United Nations for Human Rights denounces Türk exactly on the day that the NGO denounces the fact with ‘Iran Human Rights’ 109 peoplearrested during the anti-government demonstrations that have been going on in the country for almost 4 months, risk of being sentenced to death or executed if they have already been sentenced to death.
The NGO also emphasizes that the number could be even higher because the Tehran authorities are pressuring the families of the convicts not to publish their stories. In the list published by the NGO, most people are between 20 and 30 years old and some are minors.
Meanwhile, Tehran has announced that it has not yet scheduled the execution of two arrested protesters who have already been sentenced to death, 22-year-old Mohammad Ghobadlou and 19-year-old Mohammad Boroughani. This was announced by the Iranian judicial authority Mizan. “The execution of the death sentences of Ghobadlou, accused of killing a police officer, and Boroughani, accused of carrying a knife during demonstrations and setting fire to a prefect’s building, have been halted because of ‘incomplete legal processes'” said Mizan. Crowds, including family members of the convicts, gathered outside Rajaishahr prison in Karaj yesterday morning after news broke that the two young men were being taken to solitary confinement cells to be publicly hanged. Ghobadlou’s lawyer said yesterday he had requested a retrial to stop the execution.
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