Iranian Woman Receives 74 Lashes for Dress Code Violation

Roya Heshmati, a 33-year-old of Kurdish origins, was also fined for not wearing a headscarf in public, amid increasing crackdowns on dress code violations in Iran.

• Iranian authorities have whipped a woman, Roya Heshmati, 74 times for 'violating public morals' and fined her for not covering her head.
• Heshmati, identified as a 33-year-old woman of Kurdish origins, was arrested in April for publishing a photo on social media without wearing a headscarf.
• Whippings for breaching the dress code are uncommon in Iran, but officials have increasingly cracked down on those defying the rules after anti-government protests that began in late 2022.
• The protests were triggered by the September 2022 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested for an alleged breach of the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.
• Iran's parliament has discussed a bill that would toughen penalties for those breaching the dress code.

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