Afsaneh Bayegan

Afsaneh Bayegan is a film and television actor. Ms. Baygan is one of the artists who have been tried in connection with the 2022 uprising. Ms. Baygan expressed her opposition to the discriminatory law of compulsory hijab.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='52938'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/mehdikouhian/status/1681421615932866561'> Attorney Mehdi Kouhian who is also a trade union activist in the field of cinema and a member of the legal and judicial support committee of Cinema House, wrote on his Twitter that Tehran Criminal Court No. 1088 sentenced Afshana Baygan to two years of suspended imprisonment (suspended for five years), weekly visit to official centers of counseling and psychology regarding the treatment of "mental illness of anti-family personality" and receiving a "health certificate", reading a book and summarizing its manuscript within two months, two years ban on leaving the country, on direct or mediated use of cyberspace, and use of mobile and phone lines belonging to her or others. At the same time as the uprising of Women, Life, Freedom, Ms. Bayegan had announced her association with popular protests by publishing pictures of herself without hijab. Sometime later, she attended the ceremony in an event in honor of the artistic activities of Atila Pesyani, she discarded the mandatory hijab and used ornaments with the ancient symbol of the Lion and the Sun. She faced a court case a few days after the ceremony. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>