Seems like they were looking for ANY excuse to punish this woman. Barbaric.
It’s a form of sexual perversion with them
Some people say that story is not true, because there is no official statement from Iran. Her son was interviewed, but gave several different versions of events, and his only source is “some people who recently left the prison.” The New York Times interviewed sources in Tabriz, and they denied it.
The lawyer and the son are in contradiction with each other about the photo published in The Times. The lawyer says the son sent it to him (and he didn’t recognise his own client?)The son at first said he sent the picture in good faith, but now says he did no such thing. It seems strange that, if they truly know this woman, they mistakenly forwarded a picture of someone else! They did not realise, of course, that the picture they sent was of an Iranian activist in Sweden, so it was proved to be the wrong person.
In the most recent interview, the son says he “heard” that his mother was subjected to 99 lashes in the prison. Interesting, he gives no source for this report, and he has stopped saying that it was due to the picture in The Times.