Iranian star Parastoo Ahmadi reportedly sentenced to 74 lashes for singing without hijab
The court also imposed a two-year travel ban and a two-year bar on artistic activity after the YouTube concert drew millions of views, rights groups said.
- Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi received a sentence of 74 lashes for performing without a hijab during a live-streamed 2024 YouTube concert, with a Qom province court also banning her and eight production team members from leaving the country for two years.
- Prosecutors charged the group with offending public decency and publishing "vulgar and immoral content" online, though human rights lawyer Moein Khazaeli argued such activities are not criminalized under Iranian law.
- The Tehran-based photographer Tahmineh Monzavi, who documented the concert, received the same 74-lash sentence, having previously been imprisoned at 23 for photography the regime deemed "dangerous to society."
- Bahar Ghandehari, director of advocacy at the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, called the punishment a reminder that human rights conditions remain unchanged despite the Iranian authorities' "wartime propaganda campaign aimed at improving their image."
- This sentencing reflects ongoing tensions regarding artistic expression, as Iranians lived under an internet blackout for 88 days until connectivity was partially restored on Tuesday 26 May.
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An Iranian court sentenced singer Parastoo Ahmadi and seven other artists to 74 lashes each after they broadcast a live performance on YouTube, reported their videographer and local media. At the concert, Ahmadi performed very heartfelt songs, full of melancholy, in front of an absent audience, on a dimly lit stage adorned only with a large Persian carpet on the enclosure of a traditional caravasar complex. In the video, Ahmadi was accompanied b…
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Iranian Singer Sentenced to 74 Lashes After Viral Performance Without Hijab Sparks International Outcry
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