Execution, long jail terms and fines come into force for Iranian women

Women in Iran may face the death penalty or up to 15 years in prison if they defy new, compulsory morality laws which have come into force recently.

A recent article reports that those whose conduct is considered by the authorities to amount to “corruption on Earth” could be sentenced to death under article 286 of Iran’s Islamic penal code.

Amnesty International said this legal provision in effect meant that women and girls sending videos of themselves unveiled to media outside Iran or “otherwise engaging in peaceful activism” may be sentenced to death.

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