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Iranian City Council member to resign due to a Facebook photo

posted in: http://expontomagazine.nl/home/buitenland/item/1938-iranian-city-council-member-to-resign-due-to-a-facebook-photo.html A female member of Iranian city council is being forced to resign due to posting an unveiled picture of herself in her private Facebook page. According to Jaras , a dissident Iranian website, Mrs. Mehrnoush Najafi, a member of city council in Hamedan (west of Iran) is under pressure to resign as a matter of uploading a private picture of herself in which she was not wearing Hijab and her hair was not covered. Mrs. Najafi who is a reformist lawyer and webloger wrote earlier in her weblog “ I had put a photo of myself on Facebook in which my hair was not covered. It was not put in a public section but was meant to be private only open to my family…then some people got access to my photo and I was told to silently resign., but I have not done anything wrong and I rejected to do so. Now they are trying to fire me”. Meanwhile websites of hardliners in Ir