Amnesty Urges Iran to Halt Flogging Plans Over YouTube Concert

Amnesty International has urged Iranian authorities not to proceed with flogging singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight others over a concert streamed live on YouTube.

The singer and the others involved face dozens of lashes following the online performance. Amnesty’s appeal concerns the punishment of the entire group, not only Ahmadi.

In a statement posted on Instagram, the human rights organisation said authorities must immediately “halt any plans to carry out” the punishment.

The appeal puts the threatened corporal punishment at the centre of the case, calling on Iranian authorities to stop it before any lashes are administered.