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Iran imposes mandatory use of headscarf
The Iranian regime continues to violate freedoms as an Iranian activist against forced veiling in Iran, who is sentenced to 12 years in prison, faces deportation from Turkey to Tehran, according to the “Voice of America” website.
The site confirmed that 36-year-old Nassiba Shamsi was arrested at the Istanbul airport on November 5, while trying to travel to Italy using a false passport to meet her brother in Spain, indicating that she was transferred to a center for repatriation in Edirne, which is a border province in the northwest of Turkey, where it can be returned to Iran.
Shamsi is one of the most prominent Iranian activists against forced veiling in the country, in 2018 she climbed Mount Damavand, the highest peak in Irat, and removed her veil in solidarity with the girls who participated in the protests against mandatory veiling in Iran in 2017.
A video clip titled “White Wednesdays” was broadcast, in which she distributed white flowers to female passengers on the Tehran subway to express her solidarity with Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer who recently took temporary prison leave for health reasons. Reasons
In May 2019, the Iranian regime arrested Shamsi on various charges, including activities against the regime and insult to the sacred values of Islam. After six months of detention, the court released her under conditions, after the Revolutionary Guard confiscated her identity and personal property, then they informed her that she was about to be sentenced to 12 years in prison, which led her to flee. to Turkey through smugglers.
In Istanbul, she obtained a fake passport from a human smuggler to leave Turkey and meet her brother in Spain, but was arrested at the airport and Turkish and Iranian activists launched a campaign on social media to free her and allow her to remain in the country. .
According to figures from the Directorate General for Immigration Management, 3,588 Iranians applied for asylum in Turkey last year.
Biman Aref, a Brussels-based Iranian journalist, said that for many Iranians like Shamsi, Turkey is not a safe destination due to alleged cooperation between the Iranian and Turkish authorities.
Iranian activist Nusseibeh Shamsayi
