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Hijab crackdown: Iran arrests former president’s daughter for `inciting rioters’

Monitor News Desk by Monitor News Desk
Sep. 30, 2022 Updated 8:57 am. IST
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Hijab crackdown: Iran arrests former president’s daughter for `inciting rioters’

Iranian has intensified its crackdown against protestors and arrested the former president’s daughter for allegedly “inciting rioters”.

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Faezeh Hashemi, 59, is the daughter of late Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. She was picked up from east of Tehran for inciting rioters to street protests

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Iran is reeling under massive protests sparked by the custodial death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

Amini was arrested on 16 September by Iranian morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab ‘incorrectly’. She was reportedly beaten into a coma.

Faezeh Hashemi was previously a member of parliament.

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Media has reported that the women’s rights activist has drawn the ire of the Iranian authorities in the past and was given a six-month sentence for “propaganda against the Islamic republic” in 2012.

Authorities charged Hashemi with engaging in anti-Iran propaganda and blasphemy in July over remarks on social media, a report that month cited the judiciary as saying.

She argued that Tehran’s call for its Revolutionary Guards military branch to be delisted as a foreign terrorist group by the US was “damaging” to Iran’s “national interests”, reports said at the time.

She was previously reported as describing the Prophet Mohammed’s first wife Khadija as a “businesswoman”, and arguing that this showed women can participate in the economy. She also allegedly said Mohammed had spent Khadija’s money.

She subsequently described the remarks as a “joke… without any intention of causing insult”, the IRNA news agency said.


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