Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Iranian officials have hit a popular singer who published an online song urging women to eliminate your mandatory scarves On a conviction for possessing and consuming alcohol, they said their lawyer and authorities.
Mehdi Yarahi was whipped on Wednesday, his lawyer Zahra Minuei wrote on Social platform X.
Iran’s Fars semi -official news agency, citing an anonymous official, said the sentence was for him drinking and drinking alcoholic beverages, not his music.
The tabs were carried out in Rama 4 of the sentences configuration office in the Office of the Morality Security Prosecutor of Tehran, and the case of Mr. Mehdi Yarahi has closed, “said Minuei.
Yarahi wrote and performed the song “Roosarito”, Farsi for “Your Headscarf”. The music video urged women to eliminate their children and presented the women discovered dancing. It was believed that Yarahi’s initial arrest in August was linked to the video, which is still available online.
Yarahi wrote in X apparently after flagellation: “He who is not willing to pay a price for freedom is not worthy of it.”
In the streets of the Iranian cities, it is becoming more common to see a woman pass without a mandatory handkerchief, or Hijab, after the second anniversary of The death of Mahsa Amini and Mass protests Probled in 2022.
Amini, 22, died on September 16, 2022 in a hospital after his arrest for the country’s morality police for allegedly not using his hijab to the taste of the authorities.
The protests that followed the death of Amini began first with the song “Women, life, freedom”. However, the screams of the protesters soon became open calls against the 85 -year -old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The security repression of the month that continued to kill more than 500 people and saw more than 22,000 detainees. Only Afghanistan and Iran demand women who use the hijab.
Meanwhile, online videos showed discovered women who attended the 12th Iran interior design awards ceremony, as well as men and women who shake hands. The Mizan news agency of the Judicial reported Thursday that prosecutors had announced legal actions against all organizers, hosts and seen individuals that violate Iran’s laws.
