The Iranian regime sentenced a young woman who removed her hijab as a protest against the mandatory veil to one year in prison

Iranian Vida Movahed was sentenced to one year in prison for lifting her veil in public, in the context of demonstrations against the compulsory nature of the hijab in Iran, and subsequently forgiven by the supreme leader, according to his lawyer today.

L & # 39; lawyer Payam Derafshan explained that the decision, made last March and which is now final, he condemned Movahed for "encouraging people to commit acts of corruption by removing the hijab".

By the end of October this year, He returned to Enghelab Square with several colorful balloons andbecause people have gathered around him and the traffic has been interrupted, was arrested again, according to the police report.

Although Movahed has carried out two similar protest actions, his attorney defended in statements to the official IRNA agency that the woman had promised not to reoffend.

"Because of the negative consequences of this act for her and her two-year-old son, (Movahed) accept that this way of expressing one's opinion has not been correct "Derafshan added.

The woman was pardoned on April 3 by Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, who on that date has forgiven hundreds of prisoners on the occasion of the anniversary of the election of Muhammad as a prophet.

However, Movahed is still in prison and the request for forgiveness has not yet been executed.

Vida Movahed was the first woman to get into an electrical box in central Tehran. After removing her from her hijab, she hung it on a stick by waving it like a flag.

Her example was followed by dozens of women in different cities of the country between January and February 2018, which led to the detention of many of them.

Those who participated in this pattern of protest were called "girls from Enghelab street", since in this place in the center of Tehran several actions have occurred.

The veil is obligatory in Iran since the triumph of the Islamic revolution of 1979, which established a theocratic regime in the country imposing a series of restrictions such as gender segregation and banning the consumption of alcohol.

(With information from EFE)