Following over a month of incarceration, an Iranian journalist defiantly shared further pictures of herself without a headscarf on social media, openly challenging Iran’s dress laws. Despite being promptly detained once again, she remains unapologetic about her posts.
In the interview, Amjad Amini accused authorities of lying about the circumstances of his daughter’s death.
Maroufian walked out of Tehran’s Evin prison on Sunday after more than a month behind bars, posting on social media a picture of herself without a headscarf and the slogan “Don’t accept slavery, you deserve the best!”.
She was promptly detained again and moved outside of Tehran to Qarchak women’s prison, where conditions have been criticised repeatedly by human rights groups.
But Maroufian, whose age is given by Persian media outside Iran as 23, was then released from Qarchak on Wednesday, she posted on social media.
“Do you regret the photo you posted when you were released? Do you admit you made a mistake?” she asked herself in a rhetorical question in the post.
“No; I didn’t do anything wrong,” she added in reply, posting a similar image of herself bareheaded in a white shirt with her right arm stretched up in a ‘V’ for victory sign.
Maroufian, a Tehran-based journalist from Amini’s hometown of Saqez in Kurdistan province, was first arrested in November.
She was later released but in January said she had been sentenced to two years in jail, suspended for five years, on charges of propaganda against the system and spreading false news.
Katrine Houmøller, with AFP
