A writer and
human rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has been sentenced to six years'
imprisonment in Iran for her yet to be published story about a young woman who
burns a copy of the Koran after watching the film The Stoning of Soraya M (a
true story of a young woman stoned to death). Ms Ebrahimi Iraee was
convicted of "insulting Islamic sanctities" and "spreading
propaganda against the system". She was taken to Tehran's Evin Prison
and was held there for 20 days, without being able to contact her
family or a lawyer. Amnesty International said that the conviction and the
trial were "ludicrous" "farcical", and Ebrahimi Iraee
"is effectively being punished for using her imagination".
-Mirina Uchida
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