Woman arrested in Ardabil for publishing photos without headscarf

Woman was arrested in one of the towns of Ardabil, a city in northwestern Iran, for publishing photos without a headscarf.

News Center- The Prosecutor's Office in Ardabil, a city in northwestern Iran, announced on Tuesday that a woman had been arrested in one of the towns of the city for posting photographs online without wearing the compulsory headscarf on charges of “encouraging corruption and public prostitution.”

The Prosecutors’ Office did not give any information about the identity of the woman.

Since the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising in Iran, women have been arrested, tortured, harassed and oppressed by Iranian security forces for not wearing the compulsory headscarf