A famous victim of Iran's hijab rules, Sepideh Rashno has published details of how she was assaulted by several agents in her apartment last July, that electrified public opinion before the death of now famous Mahsa Amini.
In a post on Instagram, she dramatically explained the events after an acrimonious dispute with a hijab enforcer in a city bus on July 16.
A video of her quarrel with the hijab enforcer on social media went viral last year leading to her arrest by the regime forces.
“I was afraid and went to the balcony to scream and ask for help, but a number of regime agents threatened me not to scream, otherwise they would come up and break my neck!” read her post.
Rashno further added that over ten agents searched everywhere, and one was filming the procedure.
The 28-year-old artist and writer was tortured last year into denouncing herself and other activists, expressing regrets for her confrontation with the hijab enforcer.
Her ‘forced confessions’ was also aired on state-run television after she was brutally beaten before the telecast. Her suffering left a deep mark on many people and prepared the stage for large anti-government protests later in September when Mahsa Amini was killed in hijab police custody.
Rashno was found guilty of “association and collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the country's security" and “propaganda against the Islamic Republic” and given a five-year suspended jail sentence in December.
In May, she revealed on her Instagram account that she has been punished by her university with two semesters suspension.
"As a citizen, I have the right to choose the clothes I wear,” she wrote in response to the decision, adding that she plans to return to the university after her suspension with “her preferred outfit.”
