Parastoo Ahmadi, an Iranian singer who was arrested alongside her two band members at the weekend for performing live on YouTube without wearing a hijab, is one example of the growing resistance of women in Iran against a series of new and oppressive laws.
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“I’m Parastoo, a girl who wants to sing for the people I love. This is a right I could not ignore,” she wrote in the caption.
Two years after protests erupted following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who had been arrested for not wearing a hijab, new laws promoting the “culture of chastity and hijab” have been passed by the Iranian authorities and come with severe penalties.
They include the death penalty for women who protest against the mandatory hijab under charges of “corruption on earth”, as well as encouraging citizens to spy on each other.
While President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration has requested a delay in enforcement and may draft an amendment bill (which could take up to six months), women in Iran continue to be punished.
“We are being harassed, detained, fined and our cars are being confiscated already,” said one 23-year-old woman who took part in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in September 2022, speaking anonymously to the Guardian.
“I have received several SMS [text messages] with fines over driving without a hijab. They’ve already killed Mahsa anyway and, by now making it into law, they’re simply legalising the killing.”
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