Iranian couple gets decade in prison for dancing in street

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : The hijab became mandatory four years after the 1979 revolution established the Islamic Republic of Iran.
43% : They were busted in early November because women are not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man, Agence France-Presse said.
39% : Haghighi and her beau were this week each sentenced to 10 1/2 years in prison by a revolutionary court in Tehran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.
39% : They were also banned from using the internet and from leaving Iran, the reports said.
37% : In November, just a few months into the brutal crackdown of protests, Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Iran was "now in a full-fledged human rights crisis."
36% : It was just the latest crackdown on those protesting the regime's brutality against women that has seen at least 14,000 arrests, according to the United Nations.
31% : Haghighi is reportedly in the notorious Qarchak prison for women outside Tehran, whose conditions are regularly condemned by activists, AFP said.

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