🔸Heeva Safizadeh, an Iranian singer, has published images from her performance on the ninth day of Esfand 1403 at the “Emarat Robero” cultural complex in Tehran on her Instagram account; during the performance, she was detained after the entry of forces known as “plainclothes.”

🔸On Wednesday, 28 Mordad, Ms. Safizadeh announced that, in connection with this case, she had been sentenced to four years of term imprisonment on the charge of “encouraging corruption and prostitution.”

🔸She, in اعتراض to the court’s initial ruling, asked how reciting Saadi’s poetry and Iranian singing could be considered an instance of “encouraging corruption and prostitution,” and expressed hope that her case would be reviewed independently in the appeals stage, based on law and evidence.

🔸Two days after her arrest, Heeva Safizadeh was released on bail. At the same time, her Instagram page was also blocked, and it was announced that the action was carried out by the “Public Security Police of FARAJA.”

🔸Female solo singing after the 1979 Bahman Revolution has been banned in Iran, and women singers over the past decades have faced extensive restrictions on public performances.