A WOMEN’S rights activist has been jailed for a total of 24 years - including 15 for "spreading prostitution by taking off her hijab" in Iran.

Saba Kord Afshari was slapped with the draconian sentence yesterday by Tehran's Revolutionary Court.

2 Saba Kord Afshari has been jailed for 24 years in Iran Credit: Twitter

The Islamic Republic found the 20-year-old guilty of removing her headscarf as well as “spreading propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion”.

She will only serve 15 years as only the harshest of multiple sentences will be enforced.

Saba and her mum, Raheleh Ahmadi, had been prominent members of the White Wednesdays protest group, which objected to compulsory hijab-wearing in Iran.

The brave pair frequently posted videos of themselves walking around the streets of Tehran without their headscarves to encourage other women to stand up against oppression.

She was first collared in the Iranian capital in August last year and jailed for a year, Iran Human Rights Monitor reports.

2 She was first collared in the Iranian capital in August last year and jailed for a year but was released in February Credit: Twitter

She was released in February but continued to protest against human rights abuses by the Iranian regime, which saw her re-arrested in June.

She eventually ended up in the women's wing of Tehran’s Evin Prison.

It was then that human rights groups say she was forced into making video confessions of her “crimes”.

Despite her mum also being arrested, Saba refused to record the videos.

On August 19 she was brought to trial, and yesterday her lawyer says he was informed of the new sentence.

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The punishment was increased by half because of “numerous charges and previous records”,Iran Human Rights Monitor said.

Three other feminist activists - Shima Babaii, Mojgan Lali, and Shaghayegh Mahaki - were also jailed for a total of 18 years in Tehran on Monday.

The trio were given six years a piece for “association and collusion against national security” and “propaganda against the state”.

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