Woman gets two years in prison for removing her headscarf in Iran

A woman who removed her obligatory Islamic headscarf in public in late December has been sentenced to two years in prison, an Iranian prosecutor has said.

Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency today quoted prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi as saying the unidentified woman took off her headscarf in Tehran's Enghelab Street to "encourage corruption through the removal of the hijab in public".