Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said that the woman was convicted for a number of charges including urging people to commit moral corruption, violating the religious law in public and showing up herself in public without sharia-obligated hijab.
The nationwide outrage against the ruling regime since last December, in the backdrop of the nation’s sluggish economy had paved way to the women protesters to voice for equal rights.
The movement gathered momentum after the state-backed religious police detained Vida Movahed, who waved her headscarf in the air on December last challenging the country’s dress codes.
At least 30 women were arrested across the country for anti-hijab protests since December last.
Iranian women were forced to wear headscarves since 1979 Islamic Revolution, a violation of which would invite an imprisonment for less than two months with a fine of $25 as punishment.
