42-year-old Shapark Shajarizadeh was seized in February this year. She had been filmed standing on a traffic island in the Iranian capital Tehran, as she waved her headscarf around on the end of a stick.
A few days ago, she posted on her personal website that she had been sent to prison for 'opposing the compulsory hijab' and 'waving a white flag of peace in the street.'
In February alone, Iranian police arrested 29 women for removing their headscarves in public as part of a campaign known as 'White Wednesdays.'
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