Deafening silence in the European Union

Silence in the European Union and from most ( maybe all ) feminist associations aligned with left-wing political parties over the recent 55-year prison sentence in total to Iranian women's rights defenders Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman Aryani and Mojgan Keshavarz for refusing to wear veil.

The European Union has not reacted to this condemnation, which has been denounced by various United Nations experts and Amnesty International in separate communiqués.

In April, Yasaman Aryani, her mother Monireh Arabshahi, Mojgan Keshavarz were arrested for removing their veils and distributing flowers in the Tehran subway, specifically in the car reserved only for women, on the occasion of the March 8 celebration, International Women's Day. The video in which she appears distributing flowers went viral on social networks.

In the video, Yasaman Aryani offers a flower to a woman wearing a hijab and tells her that she hopes that one day they will be able to walk down the street together, “me without a hijab and you with him”.

The young Yasaman, 24 years old, had uploaded previous videos walking down the street with a hat and without a veil.

A few days later, she Yasaman was arrested, taken to an unknown location and interrogated. Her mother, Monireh, was arrested a day later when she tried to find out what had happened to her daughter.

The three activists were isolated and unsuccessfully pressured to "confess" before a camera that there were foreign elements behind their activism against the mandatory wearing of the veil and that they "regretted" their actions.

Mother and daughter have been sentenced to 16 years in prison each (5 years in prison for "association and collusion against national security", one year in prison for "spreading propaganda against the State" and 10 years in prison for "encouraging and prepare the foundations for corruption and prostitution ”).

For her part, Mojgan Keshavarz was sentenced to 23 years and six months in prison because the judge added the crime of "insult to Islamic sanctities." She had been arrested, beaten in front of her 9-year-old daughter and made to disappear for several days. She also appeared in the video of the flower delivery.

The three women were convicted in a trial in which they were denied access to their lawyers and in which the president of the court yelled at and insulted them. "I will make you all suffer," said judge Mohammad Moghiseh, of section 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, as revealed by the convicts. His lawyers have not been allowed access to the summary or defend them in the appeal phase.

This same magistrate, cleric and judge, sentenced the journalist Mourdia Amiri to 10 years and 6 months in jail and 148 lashes for having broadcast a demonstration of workers on the occasion of May Day in the newspaper Shargh.