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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A loved-up Iranian couple was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for dancing in a viral video that angered the Islamic state’s ruling regime. Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmad, 22, were seen in the clip taking a romantic twirl in front of the Azadi Tower, one of Tehran’s main [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A loved-up Iranian couple was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for dancing in a viral video that angered the Islamic state’s ruling regime.</p>
<p>Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmad, 22, were seen in the clip taking a romantic twirl in front of the Azadi Tower, one of Tehran’s main landmarks.</p>
<p>They were busted in early November because women are not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man, Agence France-Presse said.</p>
<p>Haghighi also appeared in the video without a headscarf, in solidarity with protests over the September<a href="https://apadanamedia.org/death-of-mahsa-amini-in-iran-the-little-events-that-change-the-world-opinion/"> death of Mahsa Amini</a>, 22, after her arrest for not abiding by strict hijab rules.</p>
<p>Haghighi and her beau were this week each sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison by a revolutionary court in Tehran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.</p>
<p>The couple — both popular on Instagram — were convicted of “encouraging corruption and public prostitution” as well as “gathering with the intention of disrupting national security,” the court stated.</p>
<div style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/iran-couple-death-sentence-dancing-streets-10.jpg?resize=1000%2C399&#038;ssl=1" alt="Images from viral video of Astiyazh Haghighi, 21, and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmad, 22, dancing in Tehran." width="1000" height="399" data-recalc-dims="1" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Astiyazh Haghighi and Amir Mohammad Ahmad danced with Haghighi’s hair flowing free and in defiance to rules against women dancing in public.</p></div>
<p>They were also banned from using the internet and from leaving Iran, the reports said.</p>
<p>Sources close to their families said they’d been deprived of lawyers during the court proceedings, AFP said.</p>
<p>Haghighi is reportedly in the notorious Qarchak prison for women outside Tehran, whose conditions are regularly condemned by activists, AFP said.</p>
<p>It was just the latest <a href="https://apadanamedia.org/the-iranian-diaspora-in-the-protests-from-divergence-to-convergence/">crackdown on those protesting</a> the regime’s brutality against women that has seen at least 14,000 arrests, according to the United Nations.</p>
<p>In November, just a few months into the brutal crackdown of protests, Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Iran was “now in a full-fledged human rights crisis.”</p>
<p>The protests, using the slogan #WomanLifeFreedom, started in September when Amini died in the custody of morality police who took her in for “inappropriate attire.”</p>
<p>Authorities say she suffered a heart attack after being taken to a station to be “educated,” but her family said she did not have heart problems and was covered in bruises.</p>
<p>Hundreds of people have been killed in the unrest so far — with some <a href="https://apadanamedia.org/an-estimated-15000-are-detained-as-iran-executes-first-rioter/">protesters put to death</a> — while thousands more have been arrested, including high-profile journalists and <a href="https://apadanamedia.org/iran-leaders-mouthpiece-slams-jerusalem-post-for-supporting-opposition/">Iranian personalities</a>.</p>
<p>The hijab became mandatory four years after the 1979 revolution established the Islamic Republic of Iran.</p>
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