• <coverage-outsourcing id='23886'> In early December, 2017, Vida Movahedi stood on a platform in Tehran's Enghelab Street, without a veil, and raised her white scarf in protest of forced veiling. The white scarf symbolizes the White Wednesday campaign in protest of the mandatory wearing of hijab in Iran. Vida Movahedi was arrested immediately after doing so. This protest was extensively reflected on social media , but in the first weeks it was unclear what the name of this protesting woman was and what status she had. Movahedi was released a little later and then arrested again </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23885'> Nasrin Sotoudeh wrote on her Facebook page: > Today, I and Reza (Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh) went to the same place that the girl of Enghelab Street stood on top of a height with her white flag. We went to know about her condition. Local investigation proved that a young girl whose name is still unknown to us, was arrested the same day. After being arrested, she was released for a short time and re-arrested. She has is 19-month-old baby and is herself 31 years old. After being arrested, she was transferred to the police station 148 on Enghelab Street, and then her case went to the Khark Street’s Prosecutor's office, which has now been transferred to Shiroodi Street in Mofatteh. It is up to the judiciary and the captors to protect their rights and preserve their lives </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23890'> Another woman named Narges Hosseini, came from one of the cities to Tehran, went to the same platform as the one Vida Movahedi stood on, and raised her white scarf. In the next few hours, a number of other women in different parts took off their veils and repeated the same thing. Narges Hosseini was arrested and transferred to Qarchak prison in Varamin. Nasrin Sotoudeh assumed her legal representation. In the following days, women and men similarly expressed their protest against forced hijab </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23880'> Reza Khandan was released on parole and Farhad Meysami and Nasrin Sotoode ended their refusal to eat </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23883'> It was reported that Reza Khandan and Farhad Meysami had been each sentenced to six years in prison, two years of deprivation from social rights and a ban from leaving the country on charges of “assembly and collusion for acting against national security” and “propaganda against the regime.” After Article 134 is applied, their sentence will be reduced to five years each </coverage-outsourcing>