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Iranian Woman Who Protested Headscarf Gets 20 Year Sentence

Figures are rarely given, but Tehran's traffic police said in late 2015 they had dealt with 40,000 cases of bad hijab in cars, where women often let their headscarves drop around their necks.

 

These cases generally led to fines and a temporary impounding of the vehicle.

Sentences: Shapark Shajarizadeh, 42, says she has been jailed for 20 years for taking off her hijab in public in Iran's capital

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