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Islamic Republic of Iran: Freedom activist, 20, gets 15 years for “spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab”

Aug 29, 2019 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

American feminists were too busy with preparations for their next Hijab Day to take any notice.

“Iranian women’s rights activist, 20, is jailed for 15 years for ‘spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab,'” by Chris Pleasance, MailOnline, August 28, 2019:

An Iranian women’s rights activist has been jailed for a total of 24 years – including a 15-year term for ‘spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab’.

Saba Kord Afshari, 20, was handed the sentence Tuesday by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court after being found guilty of removing her headscarf as well as ‘spreading propaganda against the state’ and ‘assembly and collusion’.

Afshari and her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi, had been prominent members of the White Wednesdays protest group, which spoke out against the compulsory hijab.

The pair routinely posted videos of themselves walking around the streets of Tehran without their headscarves to encourage other women to flout the law.

She was first arrested in the Iranian capital in August last year and jailed for a year, according to Iran Human Rights Monitor.

Afshari was released in February but continued to protest against human rights abuses by the Iranian regime, which saw her re-arrested in June.

She eventually ended up in the women’s wing of Evin Prison, in Tehran, where human rights groups say she was pressured into making video confessions of her crimes.

Despite her mother also being arrested, Afshari refused to record the videos….

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Filed Under: Featured, Iran, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Raheleh Ahmadi, Saba Kord Afshari


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  1. melek-ric says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 3:07 pm

    “Despite her mother also being arrested, Afshari refused to record the videos….”

    Note to Western women – this is what a real feminist looks like.

    • GreekEmpress says

      Aug 29, 2019 at 3:26 pm

      +1

      • CRUSADER says

        Aug 29, 2019 at 4:35 pm

        Note that Hijab Day comes a day prior to Groundhog Day.

        Good thing, otherwise if it fell on February 2nd, the day would repeat endlessly and so would the horrendous fashion….

        • Nader says

          Aug 30, 2019 at 7:40 pm

          Every woman accompanied by their fathers, brothers and husbands must go into the streets and take off their scarves, veils at the same time.

    • Arlene K Pearson says

      Sep 3, 2019 at 5:11 am

      Well said, Merek-ric. I hope you don’t mind that I am quoting you on my FB timeline.

  2. 11B40 says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Greetings:

    Sorry, we’ve already booked Eco-Greta as our young lady du jour for the next month, or so.

    Try back then.

  3. FYI says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 3:25 pm

    Zakir Naik,the mehical doctor, said women who wear their hijabs are like diamonds.

    Of course he also has said “I would rather kill myself than commit suicide” and for some reason thinks his “prophet” muhammed is in the Book of Isaiah.

    muhammed was a mass-murderer of Jews{Abu Dawud 4390}:how laughable is it to imagine muhammed would be in Isaiah?

    is hitler in Isaiah too?

    A shame his Al Lah,his one-legged,two right handed Arab pagan god has not given him guidance or wisdom..

    “may allah give us a clear guidance at all our crossroads” he tweets on his islamic comedy channel.

    Nope:Doesn’t look like his allah is guiding him rightly…

    Given that allah gets the anatomy and physiology behind human reproductive biology wrong in his koran{see “scientific mistakes in the quran’ on You Tube}which means he is not entierly sure how babies are made,remember that as a muslim woman{with a “deficiency of mind” muhammed said which is WHY a woman’s testimony is HALF that of a man in islam}………you are SMARTER than allah and his “prophet”.

    • Truth Triumps says

      Aug 30, 2019 at 8:11 am

      Many try to Project Hitler as Independent Criminal. But he was the Product of 20th Century and learned all these Atrocities from History where Self Claimed Supremacists were doing the same to Innocents Labeling Inferior Creatures.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 30, 2019 at 10:13 pm

        There were lots of decent people in the 20th century–including those who defeated Hitler.

        Yes, people are to an extent products of their time–but to pretend that Hitler was a helpless victim of circumstance is grotesque.

  4. CRUSADER says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 4:30 pm

    Wearing full burqa will lead to promoting SPINSTERism among women!

    Cheers to the Sisterhood of Traveling Pants !

    Preferably “Daisy Duke” short-shorts or skorts….
    or slit-skirts:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NuTXSnez3WM

  5. tgusa says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 5:00 pm

    “15-year term for ‘spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab.”

    No doubt, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned by islamic males.

    Oh that’s rich coming from a bunch of degenerate child molesting sexual assailant sleazebags!

  6. gravenimage says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 5:10 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran: Freedom activist, 20, gets 15 years for “spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab”
    …………….

    This *poor* young woman. Iran has done this before–described removing the Hijab as “prostitution”.

    Note that this is a country that not only legalizes but *sacralizes* prostitution–temporary Mut’ah “marriage”–for as little as an hour. This is a big favorite with religious pilgrims who indulge in such “marriages” away from home.

    • CRUSADER says

      Aug 29, 2019 at 8:06 pm

      What does the Quran really say about a Muslim woman’s hijab? | Samina Ali | TEDxUniversityofNevada

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5bDhMP9lQ

  7. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    It also happens in Saudi Arabia! Both horrible countries, especially with the treatment of women and their public decapitations.

  8. Naram-Sin says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:03 pm

    Well, how do you expect a Mullah to keep his pants zipped, if you let women take off their hijab.

  9. tim gallagher says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:37 pm

    What can you say about these primitive, knuckle dragging leaders of place like Iran. They are f*cking nuts. Serious psychosexual issues they suffer from, as Naram-Sin points out in the comment just above. Oh, yeah, not wearing a hijab is connected to prostitution!!! Yeah, I can see that. That’s definitely true. That saying, you couldn’t make this sort of demented stuff up, surely is the only to describe this mentality. And we’re in the freaking 21st century. All I can say is that I hope this brave woman, a genuine feminist, stays strong and survives this appalling treatment she is receiving from these evil knuckle draggers.

  10. Angemon says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    Despite her mother also being arrested, Afshari refused to record the videos

    Brave woman.

  11. SB says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:39 pm

    Please understand, Muslim males cannot sexually control themselves as Western men can. Plus, they’re stupid as ….

  12. James Lincoln says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    I’m waiting to hear what our two female Muslim congresswomen have to say about this.

    I’m still waiting…

    • David M says

      Aug 29, 2019 at 9:08 pm

      Plus Linda Sarsour. She won’t say a word.

    • observer says

      Aug 29, 2019 at 9:19 pm

      James Lincoln says
      Aug 29, 2019

      I’m waiting to hear what our two female Muslim congresswomen have to say about this.
      _ __ _ __ _ __ _

      So am I James.
      So am I !

      However,I don’t see it coming.
      Do you ?

    • Kay says

      Aug 30, 2019 at 7:56 am

      Given how regularly we hear of such things in msm, I doubt that they are aware of this particular incident. And have any journalists dared to ask them to comment?

  13. Sun says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 6:52 pm

    How the hell can any government in the Western world approve that abhorrent ideology as a religion?

  14. CRUSADER says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 8:04 pm

    Fighting forced marriages and honour based abuse | Jasvinder Sanghera | TEDxGöteborg

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Xh5MXA7yY

  15. 6woods says

    Aug 29, 2019 at 11:11 pm

    Hi lebel, disgusting mo follower that you are. Any comments? Do you agree with the treatment of this woman? Of course you do. mo says men are better than women. You’re a convert, so you have to believe!!

  16. jca reid says

    Aug 30, 2019 at 8:03 am

    Where’s Linda Sarsour, Aslan & Co when there is a REAL issue over a woman’s personal Liberty & choice??!! Their silence is deafening! They simply don’t see their own hypocrisy….. Morons.

  17. Tom says

    Aug 30, 2019 at 10:46 am

    Where are all the feminists and their supporters who claim that a Muslim woman is not forced to wear clothing that completely covers their body. “It’s their choice whether they wear it or not” said a feminist “ There is no coercion in Islam to force a woman to cover up, they do it because they want to.”

    Yeah …… Right ….. Sure they do !!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 30, 2019 at 10:15 pm

      I believe in equal rights for women, and I condemn this barbarism.

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