Status: 04/15/2023 5:55 p.m
Hijabs are increasingly no longer worn on Iranian streets – contrary to what the law requires. The regime now monitors violations by video. Anyone who encourages women not to wear a hat should also be punished.
In Iran, the police are now enforcing the rules on the wearing of headscarves using video surveillance. The Iranian news agency Tasnim reported that anyone who violated the dress code would receive a warning via text message. The move was announced a week ago.
The camera software does not make any mistakes, it said, citing the police. However, objections can be raised.
Many women in Iran’s metropolises no longer wear headscarves. At the beginning of April, the authorities announced that they would again enforce the regulations at universities more strictly. Students who do not comply with the law should therefore be excluded from classes.
Encouragement punished particularly severely
Another tightening of the law concerns the punishment of people who encourage women to take off their headscarves. This is reported by the Mehr news agency with reference to Deputy Prosecutor General Ali Jamadi. Appeals against such judgments cannot be lodged.
“The penalty for the crime of encouraging others to remove the hijab is more severe than the penalty for the crime itself of removing the hijab,” Jamadi said. What exactly falls under the offense of encouragement and how severely this should be punished, he did not say.
Months of unrest
More than six months after the start of the latest wave of protests in Iran, the country’s political and spiritual leaders remain under massive pressure. The autumn uprisings plunged the Islamic Republic into one of the worst crises in decades.
The trigger was the death of the Iranian Kurd Jina Mahsa Amini in mid-September. She died in police custody after being arrested for breaking Islamic dress codes.