Iranian couple filmed dancing in Tehran are jailed for 10 years

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiance, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, both in their early 20s, were arrested in early November after a video went viral showing them dancing romantically in front of the Azadi Tower in Tehran.
46% : At least 14,000 people have been arrested, according to the United Nations, ranging from prominent celebrities, journalists and lawyers to ordinary people who took to the streets.
42% : Haghighi was not wearing a headscarf, in defiance of the Islamic republic's strict rules, while women are also not allowed to dance in public in Iran, let alone with a man.
34% : The couple, who already had a following in Tehran as popular Instagram bloggers, were convicted of "encouraging corruption and public prostitution" as well as "gathering with the intention of disrupting national security", it said.
33% : It said Haghighi was now in Qarchak prison for women outside Tehran, whose conditions are regularly condemned by activists.
22% : A revolutionary court in Tehran sentenced them each to 10 years and six months in prison, as well as imposing bans on using the internet and leaving Iran, the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.

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