{"id":135978,"date":"2024-12-11T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/iranian-women-could-face-death-penalty-for-defying-new-morality-laws\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T07:15:00","slug":"iranian-women-could-face-death-penalty-for-defying-new-morality-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/iranian-women-could-face-death-penalty-for-defying-new-morality-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135978\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Execution, long jail terms and big fines for \u2018promoting\u2019 nudity, unveiling or improper dressing come into force. Women in Iran could face the death sentence or up to 15 years in prison if they defy new compulsory morality laws due to come into effect this week. New laws promoting the \u201cculture of chastity and hijab\u201d passed by the Iranian authorities earlier this month impose severe penalties for those caught \u201cpromoting nudity, indecency, unveiling or improper dressing\u201d, including fines of up to \u00a312,500, flogging and prison sentences ranging from five to 15 years for repeat offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Article 37 of the new law also stipulates that those promoting or propagating indecency, unveiling or \u201cbad dressing\u201d to foreign entities, including international media and civil society organisations, could face a decade in prison and up to \u00a312,500 in fines. Those whose conduct is considered by the authorities to amount to \u201ccorruption on Earth\u201d could be sentenced to death under article 296 of Iran\u2019s Islamic penal code.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International said this legal provision in effect meant that women and girls sending videos of themselves unveiled to media outside Iran or \u201cotherwise engaging in peaceful activism\u201d may be sentenced to death. The human rights group said the law also appeared to provide immunity for anyone who wanted to carry out their \u201creligious duty\u201d and enforce compulsory veiling on women. Anyone intervening or attempting to stop the arrest or harassment of woman and girls defying compulsory veiling could themselves be imprisoned or fined under article 60 of the new law.<\/p>\n<p>Any businesses or commercial establishments, taxi drivers, media and broadcasters, and educational institutions will also now be subjected to punishments and penalties if they fail to report defaulting women and men, or allow the promotion of \u201cnudity\u201d and \u201cimproper dressing\u201d. Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty\u2019s deputy director for the Middle East, said: \u201cThis shameful law intensifies the persecution of women and girls for daring to stand up for their rights following the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising. \u201cThe authorities are seeking to entrench the already suffocating system of repression against women and girls while making their daily lives even more intolerable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian journalists, activists, clerics and human rights lawyers have expressed outrage over the law, which they say will legitimise the increasing restrictions on women in the country. Saeid Dehghan, a human rights lawyer at the Parsi Law Collective, said: \u201cNearly all provisions of this law contravene fundamental principles, such as article 9 of the Iranian constitution, which prohibits legislation that undermines citizens\u2019 freedoms even in the name of national sovereignty. \u201cThe [new] law stipulates lengthy prison sentences for those persistently opposing mandatory hijab and encouraging others to do the same. Citizens opposing mandatory hijab face punishments, such as long imprisonment or even execution, which are grossly disproportionate to their actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/dec\/11\/iranian-women-death-penalty-jail-fine-defy-new-morality-hijab-improper-dressing-islamic-penal-code\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/dec\/11\/iranian-women-death-penalty-jail-fine-defy-new-morality-hijab-improper-dressing-islamic-penal-code\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/iranian-women-could-face-death-penalty-for-defying-new-morality-laws\/\">Iranian women could face death penalty for defying new morality laws<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17270,17271,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-135978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-iranian-women","tag-new-morality-laws","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}