Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian artist understood for demonstration tunes that call out his nation’s rigorous gown codes for females, was provided 74 lashes as part of a penalty.
His attorney, Zahra Minuei, validated in a post on X that the penalty had actually been performed at Branch 4 of the Moral Security District attorney’s Workplace in Tehran, marking completion of a criminal case versus Yarrahi.
” The flogging sentence has actually been performed,” she composed, according to an online translation.
Yarrahi, 42, was jailed in August 2023 and after that sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 2 years and 8 months in jail in addition to 74 lashes. He wound up serving a year of his sentence and served out the rest of his term in home arrest with an ankle display after publishing bail.
” We wished to raise the bail, however they stated it was conditional on the flogging sentence being performed,” Ms Minuei stated.
At the time, Yarrahi had actually composed on X: “I am prepared to get the sentence of 74 lashes, and while I condemn this inhuman abuse, I make no demand to cancel it.”
Yarrahi was implicated of “launching an unlawful tune that protests the morals and customizeds of Islamic society” following the release of his tune “Your Headscarf (Roo Sarito)” in September 2023.
The tune was launched on the very first anniversary of the “Women, Life, Liberty” uprising, which started after the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who had actually been jailed for supposedly breaching Iran’s compulsory headscarf law.
” Remove your headscarf, the sun is sinking/Take off your headscarf, your enjoyable fragrance fills the air/Take off your headscarf, let your hair flow/Don’ t hesitate, my love! Laugh, demonstration versus tears,” the lyrics go, according to a translation by Genius.com.
After news of his flogging broke, Yarrahi published a message on his social networks, thanking his legal representatives and composing: “You brought glass to break our stone … Whoever is not happy to pay the cost for flexibility is not deserving of it.”
Under Iranian law, based upon Tehran’s analysis of Sharia, females and women who have actually reached adolescence needs to cover their heads with headscarfs and bodies with long, loose-fitting clothes.
The guidelines were made more stringent in 2015 after Iran’s parliament passed a brand-new “hijab and chastity” law that would increase the jail sentence to ten years and a fine for dressing “wrongly” in public locations.
Iranian human rights activist and Nobel peace reward laureate Narges Mohammadi condemned the flogging in a declaration, composing: “The execution of Mehdi Yarrahi’s flogging sentence is retaliation for his assistance of the females of Iran. The lashes on Mehdi’s body are a whip versus the happy and resistant females of Iran and the flourishing, effective spirit of the ‘Female, Life, Liberty’ motion.
” On the eve of 8 March, by declining the ‘gender advantage’ in singing, Mehdi Yarrahi as soon as again stood together with opposing, justice-seeking females and individuals in pursuit of their needs.
” Might we, as females, object the program’s cruelty versus a dissenting artist, reinforcing the chain of uniformity and putting an end to the misogynistic spiritual tyranny. Mehdi Yarrahi stood versus the suppression of females’s voices– let us be his voice.”
Star Taraneh Alidoosti, who invested nearly 3 weeks in prison over her assistance for the 2022 demonstrations, published in assistance of Yarrahi on Instagram, composing: “Embarassment on backwardness, pity on abuse, pity on violence, pity on anti-human laws, and pity and disgrace on our vulnerability”, according to an online translation.
In 2015 in October, 23-year-old Roya Heshmati, a singing critic of the nation’s questionable hijab laws, was whipped 74 times by the cops for “breaching public morals” by sharing a photo in which her head was not covered.
In Might 2024, prominent director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to 8 years in jail, flogging, a fine, and the confiscation of home after the court discovered his movies and documentaries, together with his public declarations, to be “examples of collusion with the intent of dedicating a criminal offense versus the security of the nation”.