Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the Girls of Revolution Street (Dokhtaran Khiaban Enghelab), who was released on March 7th, 2018, on bail from Gharchak prison in Varamin, is sentenced to one year imprisonment.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Civil and Political Prisoners, Maryam Shariatmadari, one of Girls of Revolution Street (Dokhtaran Khiaban Enghelab), who on February 21st, 2018 was kicked down from the power station platform by security forces, and then detained, is sentenced to one year imprisonment by Branch 1091 of the Tehran Penal Court 2.
On March 25th, 2018, the one-year imprisonment sentence was communicated to Nasrin Setoudeh, Maryam Shariatmadari’s lawyer, while she was released on February 24, 2018, from the Gharchak prison in Varamin on 50 million Tomans bail.
Maryam Shariatmadari, 32, is a computer major student at the University of Amir Kabir.
On February 21st, 2018, in a protest against the forced hijab, she stood on top of telecommunication boxes and waved her white scarf. She was kicked down from the power station platform by security forces and her leg was severely injured.
Of the tens of women who have been arrested in recent weeks for protesting the forced Hijab and are known as the Girls of Revolution Street (Dokhtaran Khiaban Enghelab), at six women have been identified: Hamraz Sadeghi, Maryam Shariatmadari, Shaprak Shajirzadeh, Narges Hosseini, Azam Jangrudi and Vida Movahed.
On Saturday February 24th, one of the Girls of Revolution Street (Dokhtaran Khiaban Enghelab), Narges Hosseini, was on trial for three charges, most notably “encouraging corruption.” She also faced two other charges: “non-compliance with the religious hijab” and “pretending to act haram’.
Sardar Hossein Rahimi, commander of Tehran’s police forces, on February 27th, 2018, in an interview with the ISNA news agency, about the Girls of Revolution Street (Dokhtaran Khiaban Enghelab), said: “These girls will be faced with “serious police action”, and it does not mean that anyone can behave like this. It is obligatory and necessary for the citizens to observe the Islamic principles in the Islamic society and the Islamic Republic system. “