Iran dancing couple given 10-year jail sentence

An Iranian mates successful their 20s person been fixed jailhouse sentences totalling 10 years aft posting a video of themselves dancing successful the street.

They were reportedly convicted for promoting corruption, prostitution and propaganda.

The video showed them dancing by Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Tower.

Authorities are handing dense sentences to radical seen to beryllium progressive successful protests aft the decease of a pistillate who was detained by morality police.

The mates did not nexus their creation to the ongoing protests successful Iran.

A root has confirmed to BBC Monitoring that the couple's apprehension came aft they posted the video to their Instagram accounts, which person a combined pursuing of astir 2 million.

Anti-government protests - labelled "riots" by Iran's authorities - swept crossed the state aft Mahsa Amini, 22, died successful constabulary custody successful September past year. She was arrested successful Tehran for allegedly violating the regularisation requiring women to screen their hairsbreadth with a hijab, oregon headscarf.

Astiazh Haqiqi, 21, and her fiance Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, 22, are said to beryllium convicted of "promoting corruption and prostitution, colluding against nationalist security, and propaganda against the establishment".

The household location of Ms Haqiqi, who lists her assemblage arsenic a manner designer, was raided earlier the arrest.

It is unclear however agelong the condemnation is for each of the abstracted convictions they are facing. They person each been sentenced to a full of 10 and a fractional years - a combined condemnation for the charges.

If their verdicts are upheld, they volition person to service the longest 1 of those sentencing terms.

According to reports, they were besides handed a two-year prohibition connected utilizing societal media and leaving the country.

Iran's protestation question that began successful September has go 1 of the astir superior challenges to the Iranian authorities since it came to powerfulness successful the 1979 revolution.

To quell the protests, the authorities has been handing retired terrible sentences to radical progressive successful the unrest, including executing astatine slightest 4 protesters. earlier this period and successful December.

While Mahsa Amini's decease was the catalyst for wider unrest successful Iran, it has besides been driven by long-standing discontent implicit poverty, unemployment, inequality, injustice and corruption.

Hundreds person been killed and thousands arrested during demonstrations implicit the circumstances of her death.