IBT, October 7, 2016
An Iranian woman has been sentenced to six years of jail for writing a fictional unpublished story about stoning, according to reports Thursday. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was convicted of “insulting Islamic sanctities” and “spreading propaganda against the system.”In her story, Ebrahimi Iraee wrote about a young woman who watched “The Stoning of Soraya M” — a 2008 movie based on a true story of a young Iranian woman stoned to death — and is so infuriated by the punishment that she burns a copy of the Quran.
According to Amnesty International, Iranian authorities found her piece in September 2014. Following this, Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband Arash Sadeghi were arrested in Tehran by men believed to be from the Revolutionary Guard. At the time, officials reportedly interrogated the writer while keeping her blindfolded and told her that she could face execution for “insulting Islam.”
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