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Islamic Republic of Iran: Six female singers get prison for “collaboration in making music and images”

Oct 23, 2019 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

“Six female singers were each sentenced to one year in prison for ‘unauthorized audiovisual activities, collaboration in making music and images, and airing them on anti-regime satellite networks.’”

Where are the feminists?

“Female Singers Sent to Jail as Women’s Rights Activist Goes on Hunger Strike in Iran,” by Mansoureh Galestan, NCRI, October 19, 2019:

Iran’s regime is once again cracking down on women in Iran. 

Six female singers were each sentenced to one year in prison for “unauthorized audiovisual activities, collaboration in making music and images, and airing them on anti-regime satellite networks,” the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported on Friday.

The verdicts were handed down by the 36th branch of the Revision Court of Tehran Province. 

In May 2019, a female singer was prosecuted for solo singing during a tour of Abyaneh, a village in Isfahan Province, the state-run Fararu website reported on May 21, 2019. 

Separately, Tehran’s Guidance Ministry Court summoned Matin Sotoudeh, a cinema, television and theater actress, on October 16, 2019, over the way she had dressed during the screening ceremony of a movie. 

In August, the commander of Tehran’s State Security Force, Hossein Ashtari, declared that posting pictures of people wearing dresses not complying with the official dress code is a breach of law. He added, “It doesn’t matter who is breaking the norm; whether an artist, an actress or a celebrity, all of them will be dealt with accordingly,” the state-run ROKNA news agency reported on August 5, 2019. 

Women have always been banned from solo singing under the mullahs’ rule and were targets of censorship. In the early years of Khomeini’s rule, female singers were literally forced to stop their activities and go home, and many had to leave the country. Many others were forgotten and left alone without being able to make ends meet. Only a small number of female singers that chose to tolerate the regime’s repressive censorship, were allowed to perform before a female audience.…

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Filed Under: Iran, Sharia, women's rights in Islam Tagged With: Abyaneh, Matin Sotoudeh, Revision Court of Tehran Province


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  1. Krishna says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    happens only in sharia countries

  2. FYI says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    Perhaps that recent,rainbow-hijabbed convert to the chauvinistic misogynistic religion of “peace” that is islam,sinead o’connor, should move to iran to see just how much women singing is appreciated.

    What sort of god hates women singing?

    Al Lah:the pagan Arab god of the muslims.

    “On the day of resurrection
    allah will pour molten lead
    into the ears of whoever sits listening to a songstress”
    Reliance of the Traveller{Umdat al salik section r40.1}

  3. John Hawk says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 1:47 pm

    Where are the feminists?

    Obsessing about sexist air conditioning.

    • revereridesagain says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 2:48 pm

      Indeed. Just when you think they can’t get more bizarre and out of touch with reality.

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 11:40 pm

      I believe in equal rights for women and I oppose this.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 2:12 pm

    The news that six Iranian female singers had been sent to prison. For that ruthless cruel brutal heinous l regime of Iran that is so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home”

    This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]

    This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2]

    All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.

    [2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172

  5. Westman says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    Never trust any person or organization that bans music – they want you to be as miserable as themselves.

    Christians believe that people are that they might have joy, abundantly. Singing is an expression of that joy and recognition for the gift of life.

    Islam teaches that people are that they might be subdued in a chain of submission; Allah’s slaves and their dhimmis. Anyone refusing to submit gets Allah’s eternal torture. No compulsion(?) in Allah, just sadistic torture. Not worth a song.

  6. Angemon says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 4:03 pm

    Where are the feminists?

    Busy explaining why men opposing islamic mistreatment of women are simply misogynists whose racism outweighs their misogyny…

  7. elee says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    Why does the American government betray the Kurds and tolerate this regimes continuing existence?

  8. gravenimage says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran: Six female singers get prison for “collaboration in making music and images”
    ………………………..

    These poor women. God, I hate Islam.

    • revereridesagain says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 3:01 pm

      Where are all the sanctimonious pop divas ready to put on rainbow costumes and prance around stages screaming at us to stop criticizing the bogus “transsexual” craze — which is now endangering the lives of thousands of children — when their sister artists are being brutalized and thrown into prison just for “making music”? They could help to influence their millions of young fans, but there’s not one of those narcissistic clowns who would risk having those fans turn on them and being shouted down as “Islamophobes” or “racists”.

  9. gravenimage says

    Oct 23, 2019 at 10:52 pm

    Here are women with beautiful voices singing Dvorak’s sublime Mass Gloria:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOuH55alkCc

    There are many, many others, both sacred and secular. *This* is what Islam wants to crush.

  10. TattooedMan77 says

    Oct 24, 2019 at 9:18 am

    The Holy Prophet also said: “The Almighty Allah has sent me as a mercy to the worlds and to guide the people. He ordered me to eradicate the playing of flute, other instruments of music, all games of vice, idol (worship) and all practices of the days of ignorance.” (Mustadrakul Wasa’il, Chapter 79)

    • FYI says

      Oct 24, 2019 at 12:30 pm

      And that explains why in iran,there are no shi’te rock bands although there might be underground rock bands who are seriously shite{infidels are sooooo much better at Rock n Roll}

      Funny think about allah:didn’t King David famously play the lyre and I seem to remember Mary the mother of Christ singing in Luke 1:so how come al lah is so hostile to musical instruments or women singing?

      Unless..unless..al lah{“The BEST of deceivers” k3:54} is a different god:Yes,that might explain it.

      al lah:the Arab god of the muslims,the god who hates music,musical instruments and women singing.

      Smart career choice for converts to islam{yususf islam,sinead o’connor}eh?

      We must remember that the “holy” prophet also had a WINGED FANTASY FLYING HORSE with a woman’s face{nobody saw it} and received his revelations in a cave{nobody saw it}whilst wearing aisha’s dress{somebody saw that as it is recorded in Sahih Bukhari 54:7:2442}.

      muhammed was a man who liked to make things up.

      • Shawn S Fahrer says

        Oct 28, 2019 at 2:29 am

        What version of sahih bukhari are you reading Here’s one on the internet, and it doesn’t have a passage with the numbering system even close to yours…https://www.sahih-bukhari.com

  11. toomanyhobbies says

    Oct 24, 2019 at 4:54 pm

    Next time you hear some ignorant moron say that muslims are for women’s rights remind them of this….

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