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Iranian authorities are planning stricter enforcement of headscarf enforcement through video surveillance. The judicial committee of the parliament wants to extend the supervision already used in road traffic to the public space, the newspaper “Etemad” reported on Friday.

First of all, women should be warned of violations by text message. Repeated ignoring leads to sanctions.

“Etemad” had already reported on criminal reforms in early January for violations of the Islamic dress code. At that time, social hours, retraining courses, travel bans, work restrictions and fines were discussed.

For months now, the infamous vice squad, which used patrols to enforce headscarves, has almost completely disappeared from the streets. Many women in the metropolises of Iran no longer wear headscarves. Critics in Iran complain that the new tightening has no public support. Iranians have been demonstrating against the repressive policies for more than four months.

The wave of protests was triggered by the death of Iranian Kurd Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody. She died in mid-September after being arrested by the so-called vice police for violating the headscarf requirement. She became a symbol of the wave of protests that plunged Tehran into its worst political crisis in decades. Street protests have subsided in recent weeks.

(yam/sda/dpa)