An Iranian singer was sentenced to 74 lashes for not wearing a veil during a video recording

The sentence, which also affects the members of his artistic team, maintains that the group attacked “against public morality through the production and dissemination of obscene content and contrary to ethics in the virtual environment.”

The news was spread through the artist’s social networks, where they detailed that “Parastoo Ahmadi, along with eight other people from the team and musicians of the virtual concert, was sentenced to receive 74 corrective lashes”.

They also awarded him as a penalty “two years of ban on leaving the country and two years of disqualification from exercising artistic activities“.

The case has its roots in the publication of a 27-minute video on Youtubewhich came out on November 11, 2024, where the interpreter appears in a long black dresswith bare shoulders and without the typical piece that Iranian women must wear by law to cover themselves.

In the recording She is accompanied by four male musicians and performs several of his songs.

As soon as the clip emerged in the virtual world, the Iranian judicial authorities reported that they had filed a complaint against the singer and her companions. for carrying out his actions “without permission and without respecting legal and religious norms.””.

This act was described as a double challenge by Ahmadi since It was against the strict dress code and the ban on public singing in force in that Middle Eastern territory..

In that Asian country, women cannot record albums and can only perform in front of a female audience, without the intervention of video or photo cameras. That’s why, The video was titled “An imaginary concert.”.

The 29-year-old singer had already faced a complaint two years earlier when she sang “Of the blood of the youth of the country”, a traditional song from that Persian area, during the protests unleashed by the death of the young woman. Mahsa Amini after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil properly.

The episode for which she was now convicted again occurred at a time of tensions in the Islamic Republic over the use of that garment, two years after the massive demonstrations caused by Amini’s death.

Since then, many Iranian women stopped wearing the hijab as a form of “civil disobedience” And starting in 2025, the authorities will not apply the laws that make it a mandatory garment.