Maryam Shariatmadari, the "Girl of Revolution Street," announced the possibility of her deportation from Türkiye.
Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the "Girls of Revolution Street" whose protest against mandatory hijab attracted widespread attention in the winter of 2017, announced her arrest in the Turkish city of Denizli and the possibility of deportation to Iran.
Ms. Shariatmadari said on Monday evening via Instagram Live that Turkish police had detained her and several others "without reason" in order to "victimize and deport them."
Turkish police have previously deported Iranian refugees to Iran many times, which has raised many concerns about the safety of these refugees.
In this video, Maryam Shariatmadari emphasizes that her name is registered with the Turkish Immigration Office, but Turkish officials do not pay any attention to this issue and "do not look at the system."
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced Maryam Shariatmadari to one year in prison on charges of “encouraging corruption by revealing the hijab.” In March 2017, Ms. Shariatmadari removed her headscarf on a platform on Enghelab Street. This symbolic act was met with a violent reaction from an Iranian police officer who threw her off the platform. Maryam Shariatmadari was temporarily detained and then left Iran.
The protest movement of the Girls of Revolution Street began in January 2017. It is said that the name of the first woman to climb the platform and hang her white headscarf on a pole like a flag was Vida Movahed, a movement that was then continued by Narges Hosseini, Azam Jangrovi, Shaparak Shajarizadeh, and others.
