Maryam Shariatmadari

Maryam Shariatmadari

Maryam Shariatmadari is 32, a student at the University of Amir Kabir University. He is from the girls of Revolution Street, who stood without a veil over a pillar in Tehran's Revolutionary Street, raising his white scarf in protest of the veil. This action was accompanied by a violent arrest by the police

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21431'> In protest of the forced hijab, she went on top of one of the Enghelab Street's telecommunication platforms and held up her white scarf in an act of protest. The police officer threw her down from the top of the platform and then arrested her. Distribution of the video of This police action on social networks, which resulted in injuring Ms. Shariatmadari's knee, sparked many reactions to the police officer's violence. This act of Ms. Shariatmadari was initially carried out by Vida Movahedi and later repeated by men and women in similar forms. Narges Hosseini was one of those women who raised her white scarf and was immediately arrested and later sentenced to jail by the court. White scarf symbolizes the White Wednesday campaign in protest of the mandatory wearing of hijab in Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21463'> Jila Bani Yaghoub wrote on her Twitter: > Maryam Shariatmadari needs urgent medical attention due to her physical condition, but Gharchak prison officials hesitate to provide her medications. Her leg has been stitched . However, she has been put in the second-floor bed, which is difficult to climb because of her leg situation </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21464'> She was released from Gharchak prsion in Varamin upon the provision of the 50 million toman bail (approximately 12k USD) </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21462'> Her trial was held at Tehran Ershad Judiciary Complex </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21461'> Nasrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of Maryam Shariatmadari, said her client was sentenced to one year imprisonment in Tehran's penal court. Ms. Sotoudeh said in a conversation with Radio Farda that the charge of Maryam Shariatmadari was "encouraging corruption through the removal of hijab" </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21476'> Mohammad Moghimi wrote on his Facebook page that he has accepted to be Maryam Shariatmadaris attorney to sue the police officer who pushed her off the platform </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21835'> She was arrested. After the discovery of a mummy which some attribute to Reza Shah, some gathered around the shrine of Shah Abdol Azim. They were attacked by the police. She was arrested in connection with this gathering </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21836'> Her mother, who had objected to her arrest, was also arrested for several hours </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='21837'> She was released from prison </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='32490'> Turkish immigration police arrested Maryam Shariatmadari. Ms. Shariatmadari published a video of herself after her arrest, saying she might be deported to Iran. Although her deportation order to Iran was revoked a few hours later, she said in an interview with Iran International, quoting her lawyers, that the Turkish government has given her 20 days to leave Turkey. The Turkish Immigration Office has refused to register Maryam Shariatmadari as a refugee for unknown reasons </coverage-outsourcing>