{"id":111965,"date":"2023-07-20T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=111965"},"modified":"2023-07-20T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:50:18","slug":"iran-actress-sentenced-for-failing-to-wear-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/07\/20\/iran-actress-sentenced-for-failing-to-wear-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Actress Sentenced for Failing to Wear Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>TEHREN,\u00a0Iran\u00a0\u2014 A court in Iran has given a prominent\u00a0actress\u00a0a suspended two-year prison sentence for\u00a0failing to wear\u00a0the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, local media reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Afsaneh\u00a0Bayegan\u00a0was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended over five years, for wearing a hat and failing to comply with the hijab law,” Fars news agency reported.<\/p>\n

The law requires women to cover their head and neck in public.<\/p>\n

The court also ordered\u00a0Bayegan\u00a0to make weekly visits to a psychological\u00a0center\u00a0“to treat the mental disorder of having an anti-family personality” and to\u00a0submit\u00a0a health certificate after her treatment, it said.<\/p>\n

The verdict also bans her from using social media and leaving the Islamic republic for two years, Fars said.<\/p>\n

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The ruling came after the 61-year-old\u00a0actress\u00a0appeared at a movie ceremony without wearing a headscarf and then shared photos on social media.<\/p>\n

Wearing a hijab has been compulsory for all Iranian women since shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.<\/p>\n

Bayegan\u00a0also\u00a0had\u00a0expressed support for last year’s protests triggered by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested in September for allegedly violating the strict dress code.<\/p>\n

Bayegan\u00a0rose to prominence after the 1979 revolution and is best known for her role in “Sarbedaran,” a television series about Iran’s resistance to Mongol invasion in the 14th century.<\/p>\n

Women in Iran have increasingly flouted the dress code since the protests, and on Sunday state media reported increased police patrols aimed at catching those ignoring the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 TEHREN,\u00a0Iran\u00a0\u2014 A court in Iran has given a prominent\u00a0actress\u00a0a suspended two-year prison sentence for\u00a0failing to wear\u00a0the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, local media reported Wednesday. “Afsaneh\u00a0Bayegan\u00a0was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended over five years, for wearing a hat and failing to comply with the hijab law,” Fars news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111969,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111965\/revisions\/111969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}