2023-08-18 12:04:38
She persists and signs in her defiance of Iran’s sexist dress code. An Iranian journalist said on Thursday that she does not regret posting a photo of herself without a veil on social media and shared a similar image after her last release from prison. Journalist Nazila Maroufian interviewed Amjad Amini, Mahsa Amini’s father, in October 2022.
The death in custody in September 2022 of this young Iranian woman arrested after allegedly violating the dress code requiring the wearing of the veil for women, sparked protests that lasted several months. Nazila Maroufian was released from Evin prison in Tehran on Sunday after more than a month in detention. She had posted a photo of herself without a headscarf on social media.
“I didn’t do anything wrong”
“Do not accept slavery”, she had posted on X (ex-Twitter) and Instagram, with a photo of her making the sign of victory. The journalist was then arrested again and transferred to the famous Qarchak women’s prison, near Tehran, whose conditions of detention are regularly denounced, according to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
But Nazila Maroufian, 23, according to Persian media outside Iran, announced on social media that she had been released on Wednesday, asking: “Do you regret posting the photo after your release? Do you admit that you made a mistake? “No, I haven’t done anything wrong,” she said, posting a similar image of herself with her head uncovered, wearing a white shirt, one arm raised with the V for victory and a bouquet of flowers in her chest. other hand.
“Propaganda against the system”
In the interview published on the Mostaghel Online news site, Amjad Amini accused the authorities of having lied about the circumstances of his daughter’s death. Authorities blamed her death on a medical condition, but family and activists say she was hit in the head in custody.
Based in Tehran but originally from Saqez, Amini’s hometown in Kurdistan province, Nazila Maroufian was first arrested in November, then released, saying she was given a two-year suspended prison sentence. for five years for “propaganda against the system” and “spreading false news”. Her case echoes that of activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian, who was arrested in March hours after walking out of prison bareheaded and chanting slogans against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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