TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have banned a movie competition that put out a publicity poster that includes an actress who was not carrying a hijab headband, state media reported.
The ban comes after the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA) launched a poster for its upcoming Short Film Festival that includes Iranian actress Susan Taslimi within the 1982 movie “The Death of Yazdguerd.”
“The culture minister has personally issued an order to ban the 13th edition of the ISFA Film Festival, after using a photo of a woman without a hijab on its poster in violation of the law,” state news company IRNA reported late Saturday.
The competition had been scheduled to be held in September.
Wearing a hijab, protecting the top and the neck, has been obligatory for girls in Iran since 1983, shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
However, Iranian ladies have more and more flouted the strict costume code since mass protests started final September calling for an finish to obligatory hijab.
The months-long protests had been triggered by the dying of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, who had been arrested by the morality police for allegedly breaching the strict Islamic costume code.
Earlier this month, police stated patrols have been relaunched to catch the growing variety of ladies ignoring the regulation.
The judiciary’s Mizan Online web site stated late Saturday that authorized measures had been being taken towards Digikala, a significant e-commerce firm, over pictures of feminine staff not carrying the top protecting.
On Wednesday, a Tehran court docket handed distinguished actress Afsaneh Bayegan a suspended two-year jail sentence for failing to put on the hijab at a public occasion.
It additionally ordered Bayegan to make weekly visits to a psychological middle “to treat the mental disorder of having an anti-family personality” and to submit a well being certificates after her therapy, Fars news company reported. — Agence France-Presse
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