Couple convicted of ‘encouraging corruption and public prostitution’ after video of dance at landmark tower went viral
Photograph: Rouzbeh Fouladi/Zuma/Rex/ShutterstockPhotograph: Rouzbeh Fouladi/Zuma/Rex/ShutterstockAn Iranian court has handed jail sentences of more than 10 years each to a young couple who danced in front of one of Tehran’s main landmarks in a video seen as a symbol of defiance against the regime, activists have said.
A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as imposing bans on using the internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said. It said Haghighi was now in Qarchak prison for women, outside Tehran, whose conditions are regularly condemned by activists.
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