"I don't want to live as a sinner anymore"
Dec 05, 2024
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According to foreign media such as the Daily Mail, Iranian journalist and civic activist Masi Alinejad posted a photo of a woman being whipped on social media X.
The video shows purple bruises on the woman's entire back, the back of her thigh, and her chest.
According to Alinejad, the video was directly transmitted by the woman, who was arrested after refusing to wear the hijab.
After months of court hearings, the woman was sentenced to 74 years of imprisonment.
Alinejad also shared a picture of the bruised back of the same woman holding a sign with the slogan 'Women, Freedom of Life'.
Alinejad wrote in the post, "This is the brutal reality faced by women under the Islamic Republic of Iran. A woman in Tehran sent me a picture of her back being whipped and covered with wounds for showing her hair 'sin'. But she decided not to remain silent any longer.'
She will not give up her fight against this cruel regime. I'm tired of living as a sinner in Iran."
Women are frequently assaulted in Iran for not wearing a hijab.
Last month, she closed her eyes after being threatened with expulsion from school after a 16-year-old girl was spotted dancing without a hijab in Iran. Also in October 2023, a teenage girl died in hospital after being hit in a coma for not covering her hair on the Tehran subway. In September 2022, a 22-year-old woman died after being detained by moral police for violating the rules for wearing hijab.
Meanwhile, a hijab refers to a face and head covering worn by Muslim women. In a broad sense, it refers to the dress norms that women must observe in Islamic culture.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
