Iran is again tightening its headscarf laws and further restricting women’s rights.
In the future, people will also be punished for encouraging women to take off their headscarvesThat was quoted by the semi-official ‘More’ news agency on Saturday as Deputy Attorney General Ali Jamadi.
No appeal can be lodged against such decisions.
“The punishment for the crime of encouraging others to take off the hijab is more severe than the punishment for the crime itself of taking off the hijab,” Jamadi said. He did not say what exactly falls under the offense of encouragement and how severely it should be punished.
Video surveillance has started
According to media reports, the police started installing cameras in public places on Saturday to monitor the headscarf requirement. The aim is to discover and identify women without headscarves. The measure was announced a week ago.
In Iran, even after the violent suppression of protest rallies, women repeatedly appeared in public without the mandatory headscarf – as a sign of their defiance against the government.
More and more videos are appearing on social media of women without headscarves defending themselves against the moral police. The tightening of the laws can therefore be seen as another step in intimidating the protesting women.
Systematic poisoning of schoolgirls
The protests are currently also directed against the systematic poisoning of schoolgirls. In the town of Shahin Shahr in the Isfahan region, for example, people gathered in front of the education administration building on Saturday, chanting, “We don’t want a regime of infanticide,” reports the 1500tasvir portal. The regime allegedly used tear gas against the demonstrators. Meanwhile, according to 1500tasvir, there was another chemical gas attack on a school in Izeh, a town in the southwest of the country.
The protests were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody in mid-September. The vice police arrested her for wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
Under sharia law, introduced in 1979 in the wake of the Islamic revolution, women are required to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothing to hide their figure. Violators risk fines or arrest. The current protests are against the regime and the curtailment of women’s rights.
The notorious vice police, which enforced headscarves with patrols, had almost completely disappeared from the streets for months. Many women in the metropolises of Iran no longer wore headscarves.
More than six months after the start of the latest wave of protests in Iran, the country’s political and spiritual leaders remain under immense pressure.
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