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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi performs with musicians in a video posted on YouTube. — Screengrab via YouTube/Parastoo Ahmadi
PARIS, Oct 2 — Amnesty International said yesterday that Iran must halt any plans to punish a singer and eight other musicians with dozens of lashes each after they livestreamed a performance on YouTube.
The concert featured Parastoo Ahmadi singing powerful, mournful songs to an empty audience, on a dimly-lit stage adorned solely with a large Persian carpet in the grounds of a traditional caravanserai complex.
Ahmadi was backed by a pianist, drummer, guitarist and bassist and all the musicians wore black.
The singer was dressed in a long gown and wore deep red lipstick without adhering to strict Islamic dress code, in a country where women are banned from singing and must cover their hair in public.
A court sentenced the group to 74 lashes each, a sentence that was upheld by an appeals court in the northern province of Qom today, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) and local media.
“Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to carry out floggings, which amount to torture, against singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight others in connection to a live-streamed 2024 concert in Qom province,” Amnesty said in a statement posted on Instagram.
“Flogging constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, and violates the absolute prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment.
“These flogging sentences highlight the inhumanity and brutality of Iran’s justice system and its role in the ongoing assault on women’s rights.”
Ahmadi livestreamed the concert on her own channel in December 2024, where it has been viewed three million times. It has also been viewed many thousands of times more on other channels.
Increasing numbers of Iranian women are appearing without hijab, especially since protests erupted following the death in custody of a woman named Mahsa Amini in September 2022. She had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.
Since then, Iran had once again erupted in nationwide protests, peaking in January before the United States and Israel launched a war against the Islamic republic.
Amnesty said Iran must “also abolish compulsory veiling and corporal punishment and end the criminalisation of freedom of expression”. — AFP
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