Iran Sentences Couple to 10 Years in Prison for Dancing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The couple used their popular Instagram account, which has about two million followers, to post a video of themselves dancing together in front of Azadi Tower, a cultural landmark in western Tehran: SBS News noted on Wednesday the seemingly innocuous video was treated as a criminal offense because Haghighi did not wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf and "women are not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man."
39% : The government also banned the couple from using the Internet or leaving Iran.
39% : The dance video was therefore taken as a defiant expression of support for the Amini uprising, a protest movement that swept Iran after its thuggish "morality police" killed a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini for not wearing her headscarf properly in September.
36% : SBS News reported Haghighi has already been sent to the Qarchak women's prison outside Tehran, an unsanitary dungeon that was once a livestock facility.
34% : Amini was 22 at the time of her death, roughly the same age as the couple Iran threw in prison for dancing.
33% : Young Iranians Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancé Amir Mohammad Ahmadi were sentenced to ten years and six months in prison by a "revolutionary court" in Iran for the "crime" of dancing in public.

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