Iran has arrested a woman who was shown eating out without a headscarf in an image that went viral on social media during the demurrers over the death of Mahsa Amini, her family said on Friday.
The picture showed Donya Rad sitting in a traditional Tehran eatery supposedly eating breakfast, in the company of a womanish friend who’s also without a headscarf.
The image was extensively participated on social media by druggies, who saluted the two women for their civil defiance in the face of the Islamic republic’s strict dress law for women.
Amini failed before this month following her arrest by the country’s strict morality police who apply the rules for the obligatory hijab.
“History after this print was published, the security agencies communicated my family Donya Rad and asked her to give some explanations,” her family Dina wrote on Twitter.
“Moment, after going where she was told, she was arrested. After many hours of silence, Donya told me in a short call that she was transferred to ward 209 of Evin captivity,” she said, pertaining to a notorious sect of the Tehran jail which is reputedly run by the intelligence ministry.
“Our family is veritably concerned about her good,” she added.
Persian media outside Iran have over the last many days refocused on growing images of civil defiance, with women in Iran participating in images of themselves walking, shopping, or in cafes without headscarves.
“They just went to get breakfast without headscarves. They were arrested. This is how brutal/sick the hijab policy is in Iran,” reflected prominent US-grounded contender and intelligencer Omid Memarian on Twitter.
Some on social media compared Rad’s conduct to those of Rosa Parks, the American civil rights activist who defied isolation on motorcars, putting together images of Parks on a machine with Rad in a cafe.
Prominent tunesmith and minstrel Mona Borzouei was also arrested, activists said after she posted a videotape of herself reading a lyric declaring “We’ll take this motherland back from your hands.”
Activists say Iran is in the fray of one of its most ferocious crackdowns in times to suppress the demurrers that erupted in the wake of Amini’s death, with some two dozen intelligencers rounded up as well as activists and artistic numbers.
Former Iranian transnational football player Hossein Manahi was arrested on Friday after supporting the demurrers on his social media accounts, the state-run IRNA news agency said.
Security forces also arrested songster Shervin Hajipour, whose song “Baraye” ( “For“) made up of tweets about the demurrers went viral on Instagram, the rights group Composition 19 and Persian-language media grounded outside Iran said.
His song, which racked up millions of views on Instagram and urged numerous to note that it moved them to gashes, has now been removed from his account.
