telegraph.co.uk: Iran is prosecuting a woman who removed her headscarf and threw it on the ground at a public engineers meeting for “disrespecting” the religious garment, as the regime continues its crackdown on dissent.
Video footage posted online over the weekend showed the moment that the woman discarded the headscarf and then left the stage, as a mostly male audience looked on.
According to the Iranian news agency Tasnim, this brave woman named Zeinab Kazempour is now being prosecuted over what appears to be an act of defiance linked to ongoing, mass protests against the regime.
“Legal proceedings have been launched against a woman who disrespected her headscarf during the election for the Tehran branch of the Iran Construction Engineering Organisation,” the news agency reported.
“It was falsely claimed that this individual was disqualified (from the branch election) for not wearing the headscarf,” the Tasnim report added, without giving any further details.
The Iranian regime, which forces women to wear headscarves under its interpretation of Islam, has grappled with months of mass protests seeking to bring down its ultra-conservative leadership.
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