{"id":76203,"date":"2019-07-29T17:26:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T22:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76203"},"modified":"2019-07-29T17:26:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T22:26:43","slug":"iranians-sending-photos-to-us-based-activist-face-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/07\/29\/iranians-sending-photos-to-us-based-activist-face-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranians Sending Photos to US-Based Activist Face Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"article__body\">\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76205\" src=\"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2-24x13.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2-36x20.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/EnglisWEB31614cd3672c08c06732ffe19e065af2-48x27.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/>VOA &#8211; TEHRAN, IRAN &#8211; Iranians sending images to a U.S.-based activist over an anti-headscarf campaign could face up to 10 years in prison.&nbsp; The activist, Masih Alinejad, founded the &#8220;White Wednesdays&#8221; campaign in Iran to encourage women to post photographs of themselves without headscarves online as a way of opposing the compulsory hijab. The semi-official Fars news agency on Monday quoted the head of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, as saying that &#8220;those who film themselves or others while removing the hijab and send photos to this woman &#8230; will be sentenced to between one and 10 years in prison.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Islamic headscarf is mandatory in public for all women in Iran. Those who violate the rule are usually sentenced to two months in prison or less, and fined around $25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA &#8211; TEHRAN, IRAN &#8211; Iranians sending images to a U.S.-based activist over an anti-headscarf campaign could face up to 10 years in prison.&nbsp; The activist, Masih Alinejad, founded the &#8220;White Wednesdays&#8221; campaign in Iran to encourage women to post photographs of themselves without headscarves online as a way of opposing the compulsory hijab. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/76203","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=76203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}