Lawyer of Vida Mohaed: My Client Has Been Pardoned But Will Not Be Released

According to Vida Mohaed’s lawyer, she has been sentenced to one year in prison, but was subsequently pardoned. However, authorities at Rey City Prison are not taking action to implement the verdict. She is the first woman protester against mandatory hijab and the movement known as the Girls of Revolution Street.

According to Payam Darfshan, the lawyer defending Vida Mohaed, his client was sentenced to one year in prison on charges of “inciting people to corruption and obscenity through removing the hijab” but was subsequently pardoned by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic. Ms. Mohaed was the first woman who, in protest against mandatory hijab, removed her headscarf in Tehran’s Revolution Square.

Mohaed’s lawyer told IRNA news agency that his client has also committed in a letter not to repeat this action and has requested conditional release. For this reason, the court judge personally ordered that the case be expedited through legal procedures and sent to the enforcement of sentences and prison.

Payam Afshar stated that the reason for the conditional release request by his client is that she has a two-year-old child and is concerned about the negative consequences for her child. However, authorities at Rey City Prison have not reviewed this case and no request has been sent from the prison for implementing the verdict.

Vida Mohaed removed her white headscarf in December 2017 while standing on a platform at the intersection of Revolution Street and Vossal Street in Tehran to protest mandatory hijab, holding it like a flag on a stick. This marked the beginning of a movement that became known as the Girls of Revolution Street, and other women followed her example and repeated the action.

Source: DW