Monday, January 8, 2024 – A woman has been left with gruesome injuries after she was whipped 74 times for 'violating public morals' for refusing to wear a hijab while walking through the streets of Tehran.
Roya Heshmati, 33, was lashed with a leather whip and also
forced to pay a fine equivalent to £255 fine after she 'encouraged
permissiveness' by walking around in public without covering her head.
Writing on her social media page, Heshmati explained how she
was beaten mercilessly across her back, legs, and buttocks in a dank room she
likened to a medieval torture chamber.
'[The lashing] was over. We left the room. I didn't let them
think I had experienced pain… We went up to the judge in charge of execution of
the sentence. The female agent walked behind me and was careful not to let my
headscarf drop from my head.
'I threw off my scarf at the courtroom entrance. The woman
asked me to wear the headscarf. I didn't stop and she pulled it over my head
again,' she wrote.
The brutal punishment triggered widespread outcry on social media, with Abbas Abdi, one of Iran's leading journalists and social activists writing: 'These lashes did not just come down on the body of one woman, they hit all those who dream of a life with normal freedoms alongside each other.
'Enough is enough. Don't disgust the society any more than
this.'
'The convicted, Roya Heshmati, encouraged permissiveness (by
appearing) disgracefully in busy public places in Tehran,' the judiciary's
Mizan Online website said late on Saturday.
'Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out in
accordance with the law and with sharia,' and 'for violating public morals,'
Mizan said.
The judiciary also claimed Heshmati had connections to 'an
organised group outside Iran', though didn't specify details.
Even after suffering the savage beating, Heshmati refused to
wear a headscarf provided for her by officials, Iran
International reported.
All women in Iran have been required by law to
cover their neck and head since shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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