55 years in prison for 3 women who protested against coercion.

55 years in prison for 3 women who protested against coercion.

Women's rights activists Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman Aryani, and Mojgan Keshavar were informed of their convictions without the presence of their lawyers.




The notorious judge, Mohammad Moghiseh, sentenced each of these activists to five years in prison for "cooperation and cooperation against national security", one year for "disseminating propaganda against the state" and 10 years for "encouraging and preparing for corruption and prostitution."

Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to another seven and a half years in prison for "insulting the saints", according to the verdict.

Yasaman Aryani was arrested in his home on April 10, 2019 by intelligence agents in Tehran for the second time. Yasaman Aryani's mother, Monireh Arabshahi, was arrested the following day when she went to the Vozara prison in Tehran to find out where her daughter's fate was. She was then transferred to the infamous Qarchak prison.

Yasaman Aryani was held in solitary confinement in Vozara Prison for nine days during interrogations, psychological pressures and beatings to force her to confess her civilian activities.

Mojgan (aka Maya) Keshavarz, who has a nine-year-old daughter, was arrested at her home in Tehran on April 25, 2019. She was beaten in front of her daughter and then taken to an unknown location.

Shortly before his arrest, Keshavarz volunteered to help the flood-affected residents of the province of Lorestan.

Amnesty International stated in a statement that the three women's rights activists were arrested for a video clip handing flowers to other women in a subway car on International Women's Day.

"Making criminals of women and girls who refuse to wear hijab is an extreme form of discrimination," Amnesty International writes in the statement.


The repression against women has increased in recent months. Women in Iran who protest against the regime's mandatory dress code by removing the veil in public places run the risk of between one and ten years in prison.