Additional Name(s): مریم نعمت‌اللهی

Gender: Female

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Unspecified

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: 5 Years' Imprisonment, 8 Months' Ankle Monitoring

Date of Detainment: October/13/2022

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Online Activity Religious Appearance Resisting State-Imposed Religious Systems Women’s Rights

Nature of Charges: Illegal Assembly Immorality

Maryam Nematollahi

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Maryam Nematollahi is imprisoned for opposing state-mandated religious veiling.

On October 13, 2022, authorities in Shiraz reportedly arrested Nematollahi, an Instagram influencer and an architecture student, for videos she posted of her dancing. These videos had been circulating at the time of nationwide protests against the death of Mahsa Amini and mandatory religious veiling. After her interrogation, Nematollahi was reportedly charged with "removing the hijab, promoting corruption and depravity, and assembly and conspiracy against national security."

In December 2022, it was reported that the Shiraz Revolutionary Court sentenced Nematollahi to five years for "assembly and conspiracy against national security" and that a Shiraz criminal court sentenced her to eight months of ankle monitoring for removing the hijab and promotion of immorality.

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